Gloucestershire War Graves Project

4th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps Cecil John Talbot Rhys Wingfield was born at Kensington, London in on 25 July 1881, the fifth son of Edward Rhys and Edith Caroline Wingfield (née Wood). He was educated at Eton and was a noted athlete, winning a Junior Mile and coming second in the School Steeplechase and […]

156th (Oxfordshire) Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery Arthur Thomas Wilsdon was born at Hawling, near Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire on 11 April 1892. He was the son of Thomas Wilsdon (1862-1903) and his wife Selina Jane (née Kite: 1867-1926). It appears he was one of nine children (six boys and three girls). His father was a shepherd

1/4th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Walter Artemus Williams was born at Highnam, near Gloucester in the first quarter of 1884 (he was baptised on 2 March 1884). He was the son of John and Isabel (née Rudge). According to the 1911 Census the couple had ten children, of whom seven were still living (Janet Elizabeth; Alice

1/3rd Gloucestershire Battery, 1st South Midland Brigade, Royal Field Artillery Edwin Henry Woodward was born at 64 Widden Road, Gloucester in early 1897. He was the only child of Frank who was a pattern maker with the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Waggon Works and his wife Emma. Prior to the start of the Great War

2nd ‘C’ Reserve Brigade, Royal Field Artillery Walter Andrew Williams was a Cornishman, born on 5 February 1884, at St Day, near Redruth, Cornwall. His parents were James Williams and his wife Annie. He was the eldest child of the family and had three brothers and two sisters. By 1901 the family had moved to

2/1st Battalion, Welsh Horse Yeomanry Percy Griffin Wiliams was born in Cheltenham about July 1887: his parents were Reuben Williams (1858-1914), a labourer and his wife Frances Mary (née Drinkwater: 1857-1910). According to the 1911 Census the couple had seven children, one of whom was deceased by that date. Percy lived with his family in

3rd ‘A’ Reserve Brigade, Royal Field Artillery Daniel Woodward was born in Gloucester in 1877 and was the son of William Woodward (1845-1915), a blacksmith and his wife Grace (née Powell: 1844-1918). He had three sisters. He appears to have followed his father to become a blacksmith. On 3 April 1899 he married Mary Eliza

Worcestershire Regiment There appears to be little surviving documentary evidence with regard to Private Williams’ military service. As far as can be ascertained, James Williams was born in Drybrook, in the Forest of Dean, in 1899. He was named after his father, a coal miner and his mother was called Annie. The 1901 Census return

8th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment As is so often the case, no Army Service Record has survived for Private Williams (the majority having been lost in the Blitz on London in 1940). However, sufficient details in other (surviving) records do throw some light on his military service and early life. Hubert Williams was born in Eastleach

9th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Leaving All that was Dear – Cheltenham and the Great War by Joe Devereux and Graham Sacker states the following: Private Edward Williams enlisted in the 9th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment in December 1914 and went to France on 20 September 1915. He almost certainly went with his battalion to serve in