Author name: Philip Mellor

2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards George Ingram was born on 6 August 1891 at Shorncote (situated halfway between Kemble and South Cerney). After leaving school he worked as a farm labourer and on 1 May 1912, he joined the Gloucestershire Constabulary, as a Constable and was given the Warrant No 3997: four months later he was

‘A’ Battery, 76th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery Albert Harry Heath, known as Harry, was the son of Albert, the licensee of the Crown Inn, Long Street, Dursley and Anne Heath, who worked in the local telephone exchange. He was born in Dursley in 1890 and before the war had worked at R A Lister &

2nd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment William Henry Hawkins was born in Sheepscombe, Gloucestershire in 1887. Prior to enlistment in the Army he was a mill h a n d, who had served time in the Gloucestershire Regiment Militia. On 19 January 1905, aged 18, he signed on for eight years, with a further nine in the

1st Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment Edward William Hammond was born at Gloucester in 1892. Originally a labourer, he enlisted into the Worcestershire Regiment (number 12153) on 15 June 1910, at Worcester. Between October 1911 and January 1915, he was located in India, with the 2nd Worcesters and had risen to Corporal in December 1913. The battalion

3rd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Albert Edward Halford was born at Longford, near Gloucester in 1882. On 27 September 1902 Albert married Gertrude Mason Watkins at Twigworth and the couple hadseven children, three boys and four girls. He attested for military service on 23 January 1915, when living at Manor Farm Cottages, Longford, Gloucester. He was

12th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Arthur Leonard Griffin was born in Gloucester in 1880, the son of James and Harriet Griffin. On 4 August 1902 he married Annie Webber at St Nicholas Church, Gloucester and the couple lived at Pineapple Inn, Westgate Street, Gloucester. Arthur attested for military service on 8 December 1915 stating his age

11th Company, Machine Gun Corps William Henry Davis was born at Eastcombe, near Stroud in 1886; he was one of a family of nine children, who lived at Hill House, Bussage. He joined the Army before the Great War (probably around 1906) and the 1911 census confirms that he was a Rifleman with the 2nd

Army Service Corps Harry Bartlett was born in early 1877 at Banbury, Oxfordshire. He married Janet Beezly at Coln St Alwyns, Gloucestershire on 8 August 1904, when employed as a groom. The couple had six children. According to the 1911 Census the family lived at The Common, Staplefield, Crawley, Sussex, where Harry was employed as

Royal Air Force Thomas Gordon Edgecombe Alder was born in Gloucester on 1 May 1892, the eldest son of Emanuel Benjamin Alder and his wife Kate. The family lived at Milford Villa, 50 Hanman Road, Gloucester. Upon leaving Ryecroft Technical School, Gloucester, in 1906, where he was a chorister (and the first member of the

152nd Company Labour Corps Thomas Frederick Cousins, who lived at 8 Townsend Street in Cheltenham with his wife and parents, originally enlisted in the Labour Company of the Devonshire Regiment. He was later transferred to the 152nd Company of the Labour Corps with whom he was serving when he was struck down by pneumonia in