Author name: Graham Adams

8th (Service) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment William Smith was one of five children born to Alfred Smith and Fanny (formerly Tanner) of Horsley. Alfred’s place of birth is different on each of three census’ ranging from South Wales and Nailsworth to Somerset. Fanny was born in Horsley. The couple married in 1889. William was aged eight […]

Royal Flying Corps John Sydney Smith was born in the second quarter of 1888, the son of Samuel and Kate Smith. He died at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley on 26 June 1916. Probate was granted to his father, occupation Corn Merchant, on 31 August 1916; his estate amounted to £690 10s 9d (£690.53). Corporal

‘D’ Battery, 186th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery Ivor Claudius Smith was one of seven children born to William and Harriet Smith of Nailsworth. Both his parents were born locally. Ivor was born in 1897 and baptised at St George’s Church Nailsworth on 2 January 1898. William was a gardener. At the time of the 1901

2nd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Henry Thomas Smith was born in the parish of St Marks, Gloucester in 1894, the son of Henry Jesse Smith, a labourer, who probably worked at Gloucester Docks and his wife Alice. The couple had twelve children, of whom 10 were surviving at the time of the 1911 Census. Henry was

3rd Battalion, Canadian Infantry Edward Smith was born in Randwick village on 11 December 1878, the son of Levi and Prudence Smith. In 1881 the family was living in The Lagger (just off Randwick Playing Fields). Edward is listed in the census as the fourth of five children, ranging from 13 years down to four

121st Field Company, Royal Engineers Archibald William Smith was born in Gloucester on 29 March 1884. His parents were George Smith (a carpenter/wheelwright) and his wife Harriett (née Parker) and they were believed to have had nine children. At the time of the 1891 Census the family lived at Reservoir Cottage, Tuffley, Gloucester. By the

35th Reserve Battalion, Royal Field Artillery The 1911 Census return for 36 Glenfall Street, Cheltenham shows this to be the family home of John and Mary Smith and a number of their eleven children. One of the children was Arthur Smith, an apprentice coach maker (for a coach builder), who was born at Caerleon, Monmouthshire.

296th Railway Company, Royal Engineers Thomas Joseph Smart was born around May 1887, in the parish of St. Luke’s, Gloucester. He was the son of Alfred Smart (a labourer) and his wife Jane who (at the time of the 1891 Census) lived at 1 St James’ Street in the Barton district of Gloucester. At that

Royal Air Force Thomas Alfred Victor Smart was born at Chalford on 16 August 1897, the son of Alfred and Mary Ann Smart, who at the time of the 1911 Census lived at Clacton Cottage, Tetbury Street, Minchinhampton. Alfred Smart was a road man and Thomas was their only child. After leaving school Thomas became

1/4th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Charles Jordan Smart was born in the Parish of St Luke’s, Gloucester in about September 1882. His parents were Charles Smart (a polisher by trade) and his wife Elizabeth. He is believed to have had a sister. Charles (senior) had died by the time of the 1911 Census when Charles (junior),

51st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment John William Lance Slee was born at Charlton Kings (in 1900), the son of William and Priscilla Slee of 3 Croft Road, Charlton Kings. He enlisted in the 15th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment In Gloucester, giving a home address in Cheltenham and died of pneumonia on 24 October 1918 in Norfolk