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Gloucestershire Regiment Arthur McCulloch Inglis was born 14 July 1884 at the Caledonian Hotel, Inverness, Scotland. He was the second son of Lionel Arthur Lister Inglis, born in Bengal in 1845, and Agnes Kate Inglis (née Murrell), born Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, and was therefore Anglo-Indian, or of Dual-heritage. His sibling was Lionel, who was born in […]

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Leonard John Ible was born in Dymock on 10 January 1887, one of six sons and one daughter born to William and Ann Ible. On 13 June 1904, aged 17, he joined the Great Western Railway, as a porter at Gloucester Station. He did not stay there long, leaving on 4

6th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment Gilbert Charles Hunt was born in Leckhampton in the third quarter of 1898. He was the second son of Thomas and Clara Emily Hunt who, at the time of the 1911 Census lived at Crook Cottage, Old Bath Road, Cheltenham. When the CWGC register was compiled they lived at 2 Mapledene

Royal Garrison Artillery Bernard Hunt was born in Lydbrook in 1883, son of Robert William Hunt (1856-1929), a labourer, and Catherine Ellen (née Banfield) (1855-1923) of The Incline, Lower Lydbrook. He was one of seven children. He attested as a Gunner for service in the Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA), at Lydney, on 2 September 1907

‘G’ Company, Royal Army Medical Corps Albert Hudson was born in Cheltenham on 22 October 1895, the son of Albert Edward Hudson, Chief Sanitary Inspector for Cheltenham Corporation and Plumbing Instructor at the School of Science, and Maria Hudson of Southborne House, Gloucester Road, Cheltenham. He was educated at Christchurch PE School and Cheltenham Grammar

9th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment William Henry Hudman was the son of John Hudman (a garden labourer) and his wife Jane (née Jeynes). Born at Stensham in the early part of 1891, he was one of six children with one brother Frederick John (born 1893) and four sisters, Beatrice Annie (1893), Lucy May (1897), Freda Elizabeth

13th Battalion (Forest of Dean Pioneers), Gloucestershire Regiment Charles Huckson was born at Upton Bishop, Herefordshire. Evidence from BMD records indicates that this was in 1870 but in other records his age varies. He was the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Huckson, who by the time of the 1881 Census had seven children. Thomas was

5th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment Francis Austin Chivers Howells (indications are that he was known as Austin) was born in Lydney on 28 August 1896. He was the son of Howard Howells, an Art Master, who died (age 45) when Austin was 14 and Ida Elsie Howells, née Chivers. At the time of the 1901 Census

Army Service Corps John Albert Howell was born in October 1877 at Chipping Campden, the son of Reuben and Eliza Ann Howell. It is possible that he was their only child. He appears to have left school quite early as in the 1891 Census, when aged 13, he is shown as being an ‘errand boy’.

3rd Battalion, South Wales Borderers Frank Lewis Howell was a former regular soldier, whose return to active service in the Great War was cut short by illness. In such records as survive for him he appears to omit his middle name. He was born in Chipping Campden in 1887, the son of Eli Lewis (1862-1912)

1st Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers Frederick John Horn was a professional soldier, twice wounded and who died on Armistice Day, 11 November 1918. He was born at Fairford in 1894, one of seven children born to Willoughby George Horn (1862-1932), an agricultural worker and his wife Mary (née Calcutt; 1860 -1930). Six of their children