Gloucestershire War Graves Project

1/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Osman Trevor Powell was born in 1894 at Stonehouse, Gloucestershire. He was the son of Trevor Barrett Powell and his wife Ella Charlotte (nee Knibbs). At the time of the 1901 Census the family lived at 78 York Buildings, Gloucester but by the time of the 1911 Census had moved to

119th Railway Operating Company, Royal Engineers Tom Ponter was born in Gloucester in about May 1889. He was the son of John Alfred Ponter (1851-1917) and his wife Ann Maria (née Jefferys; 1852-1931). John Ponter was a saw sharpener at a saw mill. At the time of the 1901 Census Tom lived with his parents

2nd Works Company, Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment) Donald Page was born at Bishop’s Cleeve in 1878 and was the son of William (1835-?) and Harriett Ann (née Mills; 1861-1883). William Page was a farmer and at the time of the 1891 Census the family lived at Pigeon House Farm and in 1901 they were

17th Battalion, Australian Infantry Percy James Penketh was born at Forest Lodge, Sydney in 1894 and was the son of James William and Eva Penketh of Esther Road, Balmoral Beach, Mosman, New South Wales (NSW), was one of three brothers to serve in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) in the Great War: only one survived.

Royal Air Force William Ponting was born at Taynton, Gloucestershire in 1881, the son of Thomas and Alice (née Weekes) Ponting (both of whom died in 1922). William appears to have worked as a draper’s assistant in East London, prior to the war. Little is known of his war service, however, his Royal Air Force

2/1st Battalion, Suffolk Yeomanry (Duke of York’s Loyal Suffolk Hussars) James Pocklington was born in late 1895 at Amber Hill, which is approximately six miles north, north west of Boston in Lincolnshire. He was one of six children (four boys, two girls) born to farmer Joseph William Pocklington and his wife Mary Elizabeth (née Goose).

10th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment Henry John Peart (probably known as Harry) was one of two sons born to Joseph Peart (who died in 1900) and his wife Sarah Jane (née Howell) who died in 1911. Harry was born at Over, Gloucester in 1882 and his brother, Albert in 1885. In January 1905 Harry married Emily

3rd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment William Owen Pearce was one of nine children born to Thomas and Mary (formerly Davies). Thomas was born in Weston Super Mare and Mary in Llangoedmor, a village outside Cardigan. I have been unable to confirm a baptism but William was likely to have been born in 1878/79. At the 1881

Louis Reginald Pearce was born on 28 May 1891 at 11 East End Road, Wotton Gloucester and was the only child of John William and Edith Pearce who were both born respectively at Brimscombe and Eastcombe. By 1901 the family were living at the Knapp Bourne Brimscombe. John 41 was recorded as being a wood

3rd (Reserve) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment William Payne’s military service was very short lived: there is a conflict with his family details in the CWGC Register, with evidence from other sources. William Henry Payne was born in Leonard Stanley in the first half of 1886. According to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission ‘Debt of Honour’ records

2nd Battalion, King’s Shropshire Regiment George Charles Payne was born in 1903, son of George James Sindery Payne (1869-1952) who was a general labourer and Helen (née Colwell: 182-1945) of Longhope. The couple had three children by the time of the 1911 Census, only two surviving – George and sister Helen (born 1906). George was