Gloucestershire War Graves Project

3/10th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment Frederick Arthur Hawkins was born in Gloucester in 1890 to Sydney and Mary Hawkins, one of three sons of whom only two (Frederick and elder brother Albert) were still alive at the time of the 1911 Census. Sydney Hawkins was a tailor, believed to have died in 1898, aged 42 and […]

3/6th (Reserve) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Charles Hawkins was born in Bulley, Gloucestershire in 1883, and baptised on 20 January 1884 in Churcham, Gloucestershire. His parents were Joseph Hawkins and Elizabeth Saunders, and his full siblings were William Henry (1872), Alice (1888) and Florence Mary (1890). Following his father’s death in 1895, his mother remarried in

5th Battalion, Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment) Information on Raymond Hawkes’ military service is scant but sufficient to give a reasonable insight into it. Raymond Hawkes was born in Poole Keynes, a small village about four miles south of Cirencester in 1889. According to records he was baptised on 30 June of that year. His

1st Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment Only scraps of information have survived in respect of Albert William Hatton’s military service: indications are that he was an ‘old soldier’ prior to the Great War. Albert William Hatton was born at Chedglow, near Malmesbury in 1883 (baptised on 8 July 1883). He was one of nine children born to

Hampshire Regiment Hubert Francis Hart was born in Gloucester early in 1891 and was baptised at St Catherine’s Church on 20 February that year. He was the son of Francis Ernest Hart and his wife Caroline Ann (née Morgan). The couple had two children, Hubert and Ernest(born in 1888) and the family lived in Gloucester

3rd Australian Field Artillery Brigade Leonard Frank Hopkins was born in 1893 at Inverell, northern New South Wales (NSW). He was the son of Edward and Elizabeth Hopkins, who lived at 11 Falcon Street, Crows Nest, NSW and later Lullingworth, Gordon Road, North Sydney. He was a student of engineering when he enlisted for military

Gloucestershire Regiment Private Hopkins’ entry in Soldiers Died in the Great War states his service was with the 8th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment. Notwithstanding the absence of an Army Service and Pension Record, this would appear to be an error, as other documents point towards the 2nd and possibly the 1st Battalion. Arthur Edwin

1st Garrison Battalion, East Kent Regiment (The Buffs) George James Albert Harris is believed to have been born in Gloucester in early 1886 but there is very little known of his early life. On one of his attestation papers it shows his next of kin as being his father, Clement William Harris, of Seymour Road,

13th (Forest of Dean Pioneers) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Benjamin Thomas Hope was the only son of Benjamin (died 1894) and Ann Hope, of Ruardean Hill, Drybrook, born in Westbury-on-Severn district in 1892. His obituary in The Dean Forest Mercury reported that he had been ‘wounded in the early days of the recent advance’, probably in

2/4th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Renford Charles Hooper was the son of William and Harriet Hooper. William was an agricultural worker. There is some confusion as to Renford’s date of birth. According to the CWGC register he was aged 42 when he died in 1920, which would give his birth year as 1878. However, on his