Author name: Graham Adams

Railway Transport Depot, Royal Engineers It is fortunate that at least part of Valentine Webb’s Service and Pension Records has survived as information from other sources, such as the CWGC Register, Soldiers Died in the Great War and local newspapers is either sparse or non-existent. However, the census records are a useful source. His full […]

4th (Reserve) Battalion, Hampshire Regiment Stanley Webb’s story appears to be the all too familiar; one of a young soldier, struck down by illness, whilst in training. Stanley Webb was born at Leonard Stanley in the second quarter 1899, the son of Frederick William Webb (1865-1944) and his wife Amy Ellen (née Peaple: 1863-1939). The

3/6th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Harry St Clair Clifford Webb was born in Charlton Kings in 1879 and was a painter by trade; prior to the war he had been employed by Messrs C H Rainger of 9/10 Bath Place, Cheltenham. In 1900 he had married Winifred Helen Furley at Cheltenham and the couple had two

8th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Edwin Weaving was born in Churchdown, near Gloucester in 1881. His parents were Edwin Weaving, a labourer and his wife Emma (née Smith). It is not certain how many siblings he had but it was possibly two brothers and two sisters. Edwin (senior) had died by 17 March 1904, when his

4th (Reserve) Battalion, Grenadier Guards Arthur George Weaving was born at Minsterworth, Gloucestershire in 1897 (he was baptised on 24 May 1897). His parents were Albert Henry Weaving (1871-1934) a farm labourer and his wife Fanny (née Smith: 1865-1950). The couple had four children, of who Arthur was the eldest. One daughter, born in 1902,

1/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Maurice Hubert Weale was born in the third quarter of 1892 in the Parish of St Catherine’s, Gloucester, the son of Henry and Alice Weale: according to the 1901 Census he was the youngest of three children. He enlisted in the 1/5th Glosters on 8 August 1914, within days of the

7th Training Squadron, Australian Flying Corps George Robert Thompson was born at South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 8 August 1891, the son of Alexander J and Mary Thompson, of St Kilda, Victoria. He was a married man by the time of the Great War, his next of kin being Mrs M L Thompson of Vacuna.

3rd Battalion, Welsh Regiment George Henry Thomas was born at Newtown, Steam Mills in late 1890, the son of Joseph Henry and Emma Jane Thomas. Joseph Henry Thomas was a tinplate worker, later a coal miner. In 1901 the family were living on Ruardean Hill. By 1911 George Henry Thomas had moved to South Wales,

5th Battalion, Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment) George Daniel Thomas was a Londoner, almost certainly someone who answered Lord Kitchener’s call for volunteers and who died only months into training. He was born on 27 October 1888 in North London and was baptised on 4 April 1889. His parents were Daniel George Thomas (1861-1938) and

Inns of Court Officer Training Corps Charles Terry was one of a substantial number of men who had gone to live and work in far flung places of the British Empire yet returned to fight for their homeland during the Great War Charles Warwick Terry was born in Penge, London SE on 28 February 1880,

3rd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Raymond George Telling was born in 1869 at Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire, the son of Fred and Sarah Telling. He was a professional soldier, who spent over 20 years with the colours, having originally enlisted at Cirencester on 22 April 1887, when aged 19 and a labourer. He initially joined the 4th