Gloucestershire War Graves Project

Cheshire Regiment William Ewart Jacques was born on 19 January 1899 and was the eldest son of George and Alice Jacques who were living in Bowbridge, Stroud. Neither were local, George having been born in Banbury, Oxfordshire in 1870, and Alice in Denbigh, North Wales in 1867. George was a boot/shoe maker. William had a

Devonshire Regiment & Labour Corps (102215) Robert Thomas Jackson was baptised at Huntley Church on 9 July 1893. The record gives his mother as Alithea (Althea) Jackson who is described as a ‘single woman’; no father’s name is given. On checking the records, Althea Williams married Richard Jackson in 1869 and appears to have had

1/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Louis Ethelbert Jackson was born on 6 February 1892 and he enlisted into the 1/5th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment on 6 August 1914, when aged 22. He declared himself single living at 98 Seymour Road, Gloucester and his occupation a timber trade foreman. Evidence from his Medal Index Card suggests

9th Battalion, East Kent Regiment (The Buffs) Henry Croome Jackman was born on 3 June 1895, at Wandsworth, Surrey, the son of James Croome and Mary Ellen Jackman. He was a single man living at Breadstone, near Berkeley, Gloucestershire. He applied for an Officer’s commission in July 1915 and was considered fit at his medical

2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards George Ingram was a farm labourer, who became a policeman prior to enlisting in the Army and who died of wounds received during the Battle of the Somme. He was born on 6 August 1891 at Shorncote (situated halfway between Kemble and South Cerney). In the census returns for 1901 and

5th Midland Division, Army Cyclists Corps Walter Thomas Jones was born in Gloucester in 1878, the son of Thomas and Mary Jones (née Wells). Both his parents died during the Great War, in 1914 and 1918 respectively. He would appear to have had two brothers, Percy Raymond (born 1883), John William (1876) and four sisters,

13th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Hugh Jones was born at Lydney on 21 December 1888, the son of William and Jane (Minnie) Jones, who in 1911 were living at The Moorlands, Lydney. He had one elder sister (Nora) and younger twin sisters Kathleen and Dorothy. Latterly the family home was at The Uplands, Lydney. William Jones

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Leonard John Ible was born in Dymock on 10 January 1887, one of six sons and one daughter born to William and Ann Ible. On 13 June 1904, aged 17, he joined the Great Western Railway, as a porter at Gloucester Station although he did not stay there long, leaving on

9th Company, Royal Army Medical Corps William Sidney Henry Jones was born in Lydbrook in 1873, son of William Jones (1848-1903) landlord of The Prince of Wales Inn, Upper Lydbrook and Sarah Ann (née Smith) (1845-1907). He was employed in the running of The Prince of Wales Inn and when his father died his mother

10th (Service) Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment Thomas Edward Jones was born at Tredworth, Gloucester in 1888. He was the son of Thomas Edward and Maria Jones, who lived at 36 High Street, Gloucester. According to the 1911 Census he had an elder brother, George, a sister called Maria Elizabeth and another brother called William, who could

Royal Army Service Corps Daniel Charles Hyett was one of six children (all males) born to Daniel and Florence Sarah Hyett née Dobbing. He was born at Huntley in the Forest of Dean on 26 July 11896 and at the time of the 1911 Census was living with the rest of his family at 21