Gloucestershire War Graves Project

7th Battalion, Australian Infantry Andrew Williams Stevens was wounded twice in the service of his country and the British Empire but died as a result of an accident. He was born at Moonee Ponds, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1893, the son of John and Jane Stevens, 3 Kambrook Road, Caulfield, Victoria. Prior

Gloucestershire Regiment Virtually no documentation has survived that gives an insight into Private Stephens’ military service and it is something of a surprise that the above photograph has been published on the Ancestry website. Sydney Adolphus Stephens was born at Oakridge (between Chalford and Bisley) on 23 August 1887. He was baptised in the local

1st South Midland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery ‘Bert’ Stephens (as he appears to have been known) appears to have served throughout the Great War, only to succumb to illness shortly after it. Albert Thomas Stephens was born in Hardwicke in 1891, the son of William Stephens (1861-1920), an agricultural labourer his wife Mary Jane (née

2/6th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment John Roseblade travelled almost 7,000 miles to serve his country, only to die after falling from his bicycle. He was born in South Cerney in 1885, one of ten children born to Samuel Roseblade (1859-1913) who was a labourer and his wife Elizabeth (née Wilks: 1858-1934). At the time of the

Royal Army Medical Corps Walter Percy Rose was born in King’s Stanley in 1884, a second son to John and Mary/Marie Rose. According to the 1881 census John was employed as a Wool-Sorter in one of the local mills, and the family address was New Street, King’s Stanley. The 1891 Census records there were now

1st Battalion, Royal Marine Light Infantry Gilbert Nathaniel Rose was born in Gloucester on 3 December 1897. At time of the 1901 Census he was one of six children born to Henry and Matilda Rose. His headstone indicates that another sibling died in 1912, aged six and would therefore not have appeared in the 1901

6th Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment Arthur Frederick Stephens was born in Gloucester in the second half of 1898 and baptised in St Luke’s Church on 5 July 1899. His father, John Joseph, was a boiler maker and his mother was Elizabeth (née Andrews). In 1899 they lived at 42 Alma Place, Tredworth, Gloucester. Identification of the

Motor Transport, Army Service Corps Christopher James Staite was born in Cheltenham on 23 May 1896, the son of Richard and Maria Arabella Staite. He was baptised at Holy Trinity Church, Cheltenham on 21 June 1896. By the time of the 1911 Census the Staite family had moved to The Cycle Works at Coleford in

9th Company, Royal Garrison Artillery There are a couple of unusual features of Frederick Stafford’s story, one is that he has a surviving Army Service Record and an Army Pension Record, the other is that these records state he only served ‘at Home’, when in fact he served abroad, in Gibraltar (which was probably considered

Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment) Harry Leonard Squibb was the son of William and Rosina Squibb of Dorchester, where he was born in 1890, one of their six children shown on the 1891 Census. His father was a bricklayer and became a widower in 1902, when Rosina died, aged 53. In 1911 Harry had moved

Grenadier Guards Thomas Spiers was born at Dumbleton, north Gloucestershire on 10 July 1880, the son of Sarah Spiers, a cook and domestic servant who was aged 19 at the time and apparently unmarried. She married Charles Sallis on 1 February 1883 and in the 1891 Census he is shown as being Charles Sallis’ stepson.