Gloucestershire War Graves Project

Royal Engineers Sidney Pitman was born on 9 May 1896 in the small village of Gotherington, just outside Bishop’s Cleeve. He was one of eleven children (seven boys and four girls) born to Joseph Pitman (a domestic gardener) and his wife Emma (née Long) and their fifth son. Ten of the children had survived by

14th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment Charles Pinchin was born in early 1888 and was one of ten children born to William Henry Pinchin and his wife Louisa (née Redwood). Charles was born at Horton, near Chipping Sodbury (now South Gloucestershire). His father worked as a groom and moved to the town of Lydney around 1900 and

7th Training Squadron, Australian Flying Corps Roy Nelson Pillow was born on 18 December 1894, the son of Henry and Harriet Pillow of Minerva, Herne Hill, Geelong, Victoria (latterly Laurel Bank Parade, Geelong). He was educated at Geelong College, between 1909-14 and their heritage website gives some detailed information on the time he spent there.

3/7th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment James Pass was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire in the third quarter of 1885, the son of Rachael and the late James Pass, of Stoke Heath, Bromsgrove. As with so many members of the Army in the Great War no Service Record has survived but Soldiers Died in the Great War states

2/6th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Ernest Jonah Pass was born at Birtles in Cheshire, in the spring of 1897. He was the son of Simon and Mary Pass, whom the 1911 Census records as having twelve children, all but one having survived up to that year. In 1901 the family was living in Ruabon, near Wrexham

269th Company, Machine Gun Corps Albert William Partlett was born 7 July 1898 in Chilson, Oxfordshire and was the son of George Henry Partlett and Elizabeth Smith. He had a full sibling sister Clara, who was born in 1900 at Lyneham near Chipping Norton, Oxon. Following Elizabeth’s death in 1901, George married Ann Jane Smith

Royal Navy – HMS Nerissa Grenville Edgar Pigott was born at St Paul’s, Cheltenham, on the 10 December 1876, the eldest son of a furniture dealer of 11 Regent Place, Swindon Road, Cheltenham (who had the same name) and Sarah Pigott. Grenville (junior) was a Telegraph Messenger when he originally enlisted in the Royal Navy,

599th Agricultural Company, Labour Corps William John Phipps appears to have been an early war recruit for the Glosters, who was posted to work on the land, as part of the Labour Corps. He was born mid-1895 at Watermoor, near Cirencester and was baptised on 4 August of that year. His parents were William Phipps

8th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Lionel Phipps was the fourth child and only son of Richard and Sarah Phipps (née Mynett) of Bisley, Stroud. Both were occupied as mill hands. Lionel’s birth was registered in the last quarter of 1886 in Stroud. The 1891 Census, which spells Lionel as ‘Lynol’ shows the family living at Bisley.

Royal Air Force According to Corporal Phillpott’s Royal Air Force (RAF) record in the National Archives (AIR 79/604/65748) he was born at All Saints’, Gloucester in 1891. However, a search of the Births, Marriages and Deaths Register indicates that he was born in the second quarter of 1883. His CWGC record indicates his age on

Army Service Corps William Charles Phillips was born on 5 March 1884 at Tetbury, Gloucestershire. He was the son of Charles (a baker, who lived from 1855-1894) and his wife Elizabeth Emma Hooper, born in 1853, year of death unknown. William was baptised at Luckington on 8 June 1884. He had a sister who was