Gloucestershire War Graves Project

Mercantile Marine – SS Lizzie Very little information has been discovered about Reuben Henry Jones. He appears to have been born at Newent, Gloucestershire around the second quarter of 1893. The census of 1901 shows him to be the second son of John and Ann M Jones who lived at 2 Brunswick Terrace, Gloucester, his […]

6th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers Harold Elton Jones was born on 22 September 1898 at Ellwood, Gloucestershire, son of Harold Jones (1865-1931), a coal miner, and Elizabeth Mary (formerly Blanch) (1862-1944) of Ellwood House, Ellwood. No military service records survive for Harold Elton Jones, no Medal Index Card which would confirm overseas service, and no Silver

No 4 Company, Royal Army Medical Corps Frederick Jones was born at Blakeney in 1898 and baptised, as Fred, at Holy Trinity Church, Drybrook on 8 January 1899. He was the youngest son of Thomas Jones (1860-1911) a Police Constable (later Sergeant) of Gloucestershire Constabulary and Tryphena Ann Jones (formerly Moore) (1864-1919). After his father

Royal Berkshire Regiment Researching Lance Corporal Ernest George Jones has proved particularly difficult, as no documentary evidence of his service and non-service life appears to exist or be identifiable. The CWGC ‘Debt of Honour’ register states that he served with the Royal Berkshire Regiment as a Lance Corporal (number 24606) before transferring to 641st Employment

Royal Air Force Alfred George Jones was born in the second quarter of 1882 at Gloucester to George and Ann Jones. His occupation was bricklayers labourer, prior to his service career. By the start of the Great War his father had died and his mother lived at 40 Chequers Lane, Coney Hill Road, Gloucester. At

15th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps According to his enlistment papers Walter Richard Buchanan Johnson was born at Ultimo, Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), however, the CWGC Register states his birth place to be Pyrmont, NSW. Both appear to be inner city suburbs of Sydney. He was born in 1890, the son of William

Royal Garrison Artillery Charles Francis Hutchings was born at Redditch, Worcestershire on 24 June 1883. His parents were Hannah Sarah (née Sloman) and Ion John Hutchings and he had four sisters – Ethel Lavinia, born 1885; Alice Mabel (1887); Annie Elizabeth (1893) and Louisa (1878). The 1891 Census shows Charles to be living at Aston,

19th Battalion, Welsh Regiment George Hussey was born in Lydbrook in 1883, son of Thomas Henry Hussey, a tinplate worker, (born 1853) and Eva (née Mercy) (1856-1927). George Hussey, a tinplate worker, married Annetta Mary Davies at Lydbrook (Holy Jesus) Church on 4 March 1906. There were two sons of the marriage. At the time

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Henry James Hunt was born in Badgeworth, near Cheltenham in 1887 and was the son of James and Sarah Ann Hunt (née Wright). His siblings were Sarah Clara Louisa (born 1888), William Benjamin (1890), Sidney (1894) and Edith (1896). Henry married Lily Louisa Freeman at the Cheltenham Register Office on 23

2/3rd North Midland Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps Reginald Johnson was the son of George Samuel Johnson and his wife Alice Mary. According to the 1911 Census thirteen children were born to the couple inside twenty-five years of marriage of whom only seven were surviving at the time of the census. Reginald was the

Royal Engineers Herbert Jewell was a career soldier, who was born in Axbridge, near Bath, Somerset in 1875. On 16 October 1894, when aged 19 he enlisted into the Royal Engineers at Bristol, as a carpenter. He was promoted from Sapper to Corporal in 1904 and on 14 November 1909 to the rank of Serjeant.