Gloucestershire War Graves Project

Royal Marine Artillery Joseph William Robins was born in Slimbridge on 25 December 1873 and was the eldest son of George Robins and his wife Jane (née Hicks). On 6 October 1890 he left his job as a farm labourer to enlist for twelve years service in the Royal Marines (stating his age to be

1/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Stanley Roberts was a soldier who enlisted early in the war but whose military career was cut short early by illness. He had enlisted in the 1/5th (Territorial) Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment in November 1914 and was in training at Winchester on 27 August 1915, when he died suddenly (of

8th Battalion, Australian Infantry The 28 August 1918 was a black day for Minchinhampton Aerodrome, as three of its pilots were killed in one accident. Charles William Scott was born in March 1894, at Malvern, Victoria. He was the son of John McAdam and Agnes Augusta Scott, of Kent Street, Ascot Vale, Victoria: in later

9th Battalion, Australian Infantry John Daniel Manners Scales was born on 7 June 1881, at West Ham, London and was the son of George G R.Manners (born 1852) and Sarah J Scales; he was the third eldest of seven children. On 5 September 1907 he married Edith Wood, at St Peter’s Church, Grimsby where he

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment George Henry Saysum was born in Lydney in 1897, the son of William Saysum and his wife Martha (née Miles). He was one of at least four children, having a brother (William) and sisters Elizabeth (known as Cissie) and Florence (Flo). Prior to the Great War he was employed as a

Royal Flying Corps William Leslie Savage was the son of Arthur, a colonial merchant and his wife Rose Mary who had been born in Cape Colony, South Africa. He was born on 15 November 1898 in Surrey and the 1911 Census records the couple having four children. At the time of that census Leslie was

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Frederick Saunders was born at Gloucester in 1893. He left his occupation as a Doorman on 13 July 2012 and joined the Gloucestershire Regiment after signing Attestation for seven years, with an additional five in the Reserve. He was a short man, only 5 feet 5½ inches tall and weighed only

Royal Field Artillery Arthur Dudley Saunders was born in 1876 in Sutton St Nicholas, Herefordshire. He was the son of the Reverend David Arthur Fosbroke Saunders (1843-1914) and Mary Anne Saunders (formerly Morris) (1844-1919). The family moved to the Rectory, Hewelsfield in 1902 when Rev Saunders was installed as Rector of the parish, the living

9th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment William John Sallis was born in 1895 in the village of Forthampton, about three miles from Tewkesbury. He was the only son of farm labourer William Sallis (1864-1934) and his wife Alice June (née Lodge: 1864-1915). Besides William the couple had three daughters and all were surviving by the time of

Worcestershire Regiment Charles William Sallis was born in Dumbleton, Gloucestershire on 6 June 1888 and was the son of Samuel Thomas Jonas Sallis and his wife Harriet Louisa (née Wills). The couple had six children, equally divided between boys and girls. Samuel died in 1916, aged 63 and Harriet in 1915, aged 65. One of