Gloucestershire War Graves Project

2nd Battalion, 73rd Malabar Infantry, Indian Army Edward John (Jack) Wibby was born in Gloucester, in the second quarter of 1896. He was the only son of John and Susan Wibby of 2 The Beeches, Tuffley Avenue, Gloucester, who also had six daughters. On 12 August 1914 left his occupation as a clerk and attested […]

11th Company, Machine Gun Corps Bernard Whyte was an Irishman and according to the Irish Memorial Records from the Great War he was born at Dunshaughlin, Co Meath, in 1897. His father was Joseph Whyte. Soldier’s Died in the Great War has him enlisting in Navan and residing in Ashbourne. Otherwise little is known of

12th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment William Edward Whittington was born on 22 June 1887, son of William Whittington (1850-1913), a grocer, and Harriet (née Roberts) (1862-1937) of Broadwell Lane End, near Coleford. The 1911 Census shows him living at home, with parents and two sisters — Arabella (born 1889), Maud (born 1893) and brother Percy (born

25th Light Railway Company, Royal Engineers William Arthur White was born in Croydon, Surrey in 1889, the son of George Robert White (an engineer) and his wife Ruth (née Shoebridge) and was one of four children, two boys and two girls. He spent his early years in Croydon but had moved to Gloucester by the

‘D’ Company, 1/2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment Benjamin Hale White was born in 1889. At the time of his birth registration his name was Benjamin Hale but his father, also properly Benjamin Hale, took the surname White and both became Benjamin Hale White. His father Benjamin (1861-1950) was a collier and his mother was Sarah Ann

2nd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment Frederick Arthur Wherrett was born at Hope House Farm, Cambridge, Gloucestershire in 1895, one of thirteen children born to Joseph and Mary Elizabeth Wherrett, who later lived at Street Farm, Cambridge. The Wherretts were an old and well respected local yeoman family. Joseph Wherrett was a farmer (who died in an

464th Battery, 179th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery Hardly any documentary evidence has survived of Joseph’s time in Army service and he would appear to be one of the victims of the ‘Spanish Flu’ pandemic of 1917-1919. Joseph George Whatcott was born in Chipping Campden in the latter half of 1896 and was one of nine

6th Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles George Wilbert Westaver was born on 8 February 1879, the son of Simon Lawson Westaver and Matilda (née Coolen), of Hubbard’s Cove, Nova Scotia. It would appear that his mother died either during childbirth or shortly after and that he was an only child. In 1880 his father re-married, to

6th Labour Battalion, Royal Engineers Much of what is known of Pioneer Welsh’s military service is contained in a surviving Army Service Record and a report of his death in the Gloucestershire Echo of 24 December 1915. Other than this little or nothing is known of his life. The Gloucestershire Echo report states that William

Royal Navy – HMS Vivid Walter John Wellington was born in Gloucester on 26 January 1893: he was the son of William and Nellie Wellington, of 2 St James Street, Gloucester. He left his job as an errand boy to join the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 30 January 1909. He steadily

2nd/4th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Ernest William Wellington was the only son, and youngest of eight children, of Joseph Wellington and Jane Stephens. His siblings were Alice (1879), Rose (1880), Agnes (1882), May (1884), Edith (1885), Margaret (1889), and Jenny Maria (1892) He was born in Gloucester in 1893 and baptised on 24 September 1893 at