Author name: Graham Adams

386th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery Frank George Teal was born at Wiggold, Cirencester in the first quarter of 1898. His parents were George and Elizabeth Ann Teal. George Teal was a groom on a farm and the 1911 Census records the family (which included three children, Frank being the youngest) living at 63 Wiggold. […]

8th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment William George Taylor was born in Stow-on-theWold in 1888, the son of George Taylor and Sarah Palmer Clifford. His siblings were Maud Winifred (1889-1973), Florence Maria (1891-1980), Rhoda Violet (1894-1896), Daisy Hannah (1896-1896), Reginald Percival (1898-1959), Norman Victor (1901), Lucy Mayellen (1903). In 1891, he was living with parents and sibling

82nd Provisional Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment It is unfortunately not possible to be certain when George Henry Taylor was born and therefore confirm a baptism or parent details as there are two or three possible George Taylors born in the Stroud area. His obituary states he was 41 giving him a birth date of 1874 or

Army Service Corps Frederick William Taylor was born in Tewkesbury in 1898 to Frederick William Taylor and Theresa Taylor (also formerly Taylor and whose forename was registered as Thirza at her birth and Thursa when she married in 1895). Both Frederick William (senior) and Theresa were born in Walton, Cardiff and she was the daughter

Royal Air Force Frank Arthur Taylor was the son of Frank Arthur Taylor (a pattern maker) and his wife, Emma, who lived at 99 Melbourne Street, Gloucester. They had seven children, all of whom were surviving at the time of the 1911 Census. On the 1901 Census return Frank (junior) is recorded with the name

2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment Harold Tart was a Staffordshire man who came to marry a girl from Mickleton, the most northerly village in Gloucestershire. He was born in Wallbrook, near Sedgeley, Staffordshire in 1894. His father, John Edward Tart (1859-1921) was a coal miner and his mother was Mary Jane (née Clare; 1862-1911). The couple

1/1st Battalion, Royal Gloucestershire Hussars Joe Tagg, as he appears to have been known, joined the Army at the age of 52 but served less than two months. Walter Joseph Tagg was born at Carshalton, Surrey in 1862. His parents were John and Emma (née Jackson). John Tagg was a shoemaker, who lived from 1825-1870.

5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment George William Swayne was born in Painswick in 1864, the son of George and Sarah Swain. He originally enlisted in the Army in December 1883, when aged 19 and a general labourer. He initially signed on for a period of 12 years and joined the 2nd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment at Bristol

Royal Gloucestershire Hussars Harry Ernest Such was born in Cheltenham in 1877 and served in the South African War in the 1st Gloucestershire Royal Engineer Volunteers, which he had joined on 27 February 1900 and was discharged, as surplus to requirements, on 29 May 1901, having returned from South Africa. On 21 December 1908 he

Railway Operating Department, Royal Engineers George Stubbs was born in Cheltenham in 1881 and had married Florence Annie Smith on 7 November 1908 at St Peter’s Church in Cheltenham. At the time of the 1911 Census he, his wife and the first of what would eventually become a family of three children were living at

92nd Battalion, Training Reserve Francis George Stubbs was the only son of Thomas and Martha Stubbs. He was born in Upton St Leonards Gloucestershire, and baptised in the parish church on 16 July 1899. Thomas was from Upton St Leonards and Martha was born in Huntley. Francis had five step-siblings; his father having been married