Author name: Graham Adams

9th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle CorpsAttached to 1/9th Battalion, London Regiment (Queen Victoria’s Rifles) Sidney Charles Stroud was born in Cheltenham in 1898, one of two children born to Charles and Emily Stroud, of 6 Hereford Place, Swindon Road, Cheltenham. It is not known when exactly he joined the King’s Royal Rifle Corps (KRRC) but […]

No 7 Training Squadron, Australian Flying Corps Keith William Stronach was born on 2 February 1896 at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the son of Samuel W and Margarette Stronach, who lived at 1048 Hay Street West, Perth, Western Australia. He had studied to be a civil engineer, gaining a BSc at Adelaide, South Australia. Having been

Royal Air Force Frederick Gerald Strange was born in Cheltenham in 1892, the son of Frederick William and Ada Strange of 5 Trinity Terrace, Portland Street, Cheltenham. The couple had three children. They were also associated with 2 Priory Buildings, High Street, Cheltenham. Prior to the war Frederick worked with his father in the family

Worcestershire Regiment Private Arthur Strain is an enigma, principally as he appears to have undertaken his Army service under the assumed name of ‘E C Goodwin’. There could be a number of reasons for this but usually those seeking anonymity were usually seeking to hide from the law; had deserted from military service earlier; were

2/10th Battalion, Manchester Regiment Philip Nicholson Stott was born on 4 May 1896 at Oldham, Lancashire and educated at Mossall School, Nyon, Switzerland. He served for three and a quarter years as a Private in the Officers Training Corps, until December 1913. He was the son of Philip Sydney and Hannah Nicholson Stot of Stanton

8th (Service) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment John Valentine Stone, who was probably known by his middle name, was born at Frome, Somerset in 1895 and baptised there on 14 April of that year. He was the son of George Enos Stone (1869-1933) who drove a car or a cart for a railway company and his wife

3/5th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment Percy Enoch Stockwell was born in 1899 at Paganhill, near Stroud. His father, Enoch Henry Stockwell declared his occupation as a ‘general labourer’ with a brick maker in the 1911 Census. He was married to Helena Eliza Stockwell and the couple had six children, of whom Percy was the eldest.

10th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment William Stevens was the son of William and Elizabeth Stevens of Whiteshill, Stroud. He was baptised at Whiteshill on 10 February 1896. The surname was spelt Stephens and the vicar noted that they were gypsies. William was one of six children of whom five were living at the 1911 Census. At

7th Battalion, Australian Infantry Andrew Williams Stevens was wounded twice in the service of his country and the British Empire but died as a result of an accident. He was born at Moonee Ponds, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1893, the son of John and Jane Stevens, 3 Kambrook Road, Caulfield, Victoria. Prior

Gloucestershire Regiment Virtually no documentation has survived that gives an insight into Private Stephens’ military service and it is something of a surprise that the above photograph has been published on the Ancestry website. Sydney Adolphus Stephens was born at Oakridge (between Chalford and Bisley) on 23 August 1887. He was baptised in the local

1st South Midland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery ‘Bert’ Stephens (as he appears to have been known) appears to have served throughout the Great War, only to succumb to illness shortly after it. Albert Thomas Stephens was born in Hardwicke in 1891, the son of William Stephens (1861-1920), an agricultural labourer his wife Mary Jane (née