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15th Battalion Hampshire Regiment Wilfred Colin Arkell was born in 1899, the sixth of seven sons of John and Hannah Jane Arkell of Drybrook. He also had four sisters. After attending Holy Trinity School, Drybrook he was apprenticed in the tailoring and clothing department of the Cinderford Co-operative Society where he served for four and […]

62nd Company Machine Gun Corps Campbell Hudson was born on 12 December 1886, the only son of John Owen and Alice Hudson of Ruspidge, Cinderford. John Owen Hudson owned a grocery store. Campbell was educated at Colston School, Bristol. His father died in 1895 and his mother continued to run the store. Campbell did not