Author name: Peter Gill

4th Battalion Australian Infantry Bernard John Browning was born at Upton on Severn. Until 1910 he lived with his parents at Severn Farm, near Quedgeley, when he emigrated to New South Wales in Australia and became a vehicle driver.He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 10 August 1915 at Warwick Farm, New South Wales […]

Royal Air Force Hedley Goldsmith Browne was born on 15 June 1888 in Norwich, the son of John Goldsmith and Edith A Browne. His father was an insurance clerk. According to the 1901 Census the couple had three sons and one daughter and the family lived at 26 York Street, Norwich. Prior to his military

Essex Yeomanry Oliver Brown was born in 1890, the son of George and Mary Jane Brown, Church Road, Cinderford. He attended Double View Secondary School in the town, and afterwards worked as a haulier in one of the local collieries. He enlisted on 29 March 1915 as 2218 Gunner O Brown in the 3rd South

3rd Battalion (attached to 1st Battalion) Gloucestershire Regiment Laurence* Clerke Brown was born on 1 September 1892 at Winson, Gloucestershire. He was one of three children born to Blanche and George Clerke Brown; his brother Richard was also killed in the war.Laurence was educated at Durnford School, Langton Matravers, Dorset. He joined the Gloucestershire Regiment

1/6 Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment Frank Brain was born on 16 October 1895, one of the ten children of Tom and Emma Brain of Myrtle Cottage, Harry Hill, Drybrook. After leaving school he worked as a coal miner at the Lydney and Crump Meadow Colliery at Cinderford. He was a music lover – being a chorister

10th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Charles Thomas Brain was born in Campden on 26 July 1896, the second son of John and Mary Katharine Brain of Watery Lane, and was baptised at St James’s Church on 6 September of that year. His father was an agricultural labourer. At the age of 18 Charles enlisted in the

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Albert is on the left,seen here with his brother Henry Jacob Albert Charles Brading was born in Gloucester in 1887, the third of ten children, to George Henry and Ann Brading. By 1901 the family had moved to Hinton near Sharpness. When he was older Albert worked as a farm labourer