Gloucestershire War Graves Project

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) William Thompson George died on 18 October 1918 aged 25 years from of complications following an operation to remove a brain abscess at a military hospital at Rugeley Camp, Cannock Chase in Staffordshire. He was the husband of Maud C George of Haughwood Gate, Woolhope, Fownhope, Herefordshire (they married in the […]

4th Battalion, Coldstream Guards (Pioneers) Research into Private Gardiner’s war service is hampered by the almost total lack of surviving information. The Battalion War Diary of the 4th Coldstream Guards (NA ref: WO 95/1206/2) is unusual in that is does list the names and numbers of Other Ranks killed and wounded. There is an entry

25th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment William Gardiner was serving in the Army for almost a year following the November 1918 Armistice and died about two and a half years after it. Whilst he was still considered a casualty of the war, very little documentary evidence of his service appears to have survived. William Gardiner was born

Army Service Corps (Motor Transport) There are many different gravestones in the churchyard of St Peter’s Church, Rendcomb representing the lives of many of the village’s citizens across the centuries. But perhaps most distinctive amongst them is the distinctive white stone of a lone Commonwealth War Grave, that of Private Harold Edmund Gawthorne of the

2nd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment George Norton Gastrell was born 17 August 1890 at West Derby in Liverpool, the second eldest son of Edward Jessie and Susannah Jane Gastrell. By the time of the 1901 census the family was living in the St Luke’s Parish area of Cheltenham, George Gastrell being a commercial traveller and

7th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Ernest Arthur George Gabb was born on 22 January 1894, to George and Mary Gabb. Ernest was the youngest of six children. The 1901 Census records that George was employed as a Woollen Worker and the family were living at 7 Stanley Mill Row, King’s Stanley. The Schools Register records that

8th Training Squadron, Australian Flying Corps Sydney Charles Fry was born at West Maitland, New South Wales, Australia, in about September 1897, the son of Henry William and Alice Fry, who lived at 3 Michael Street, West Maitland. He was educated at the Boys’ High School, East Maitland and was a member of the 6th

7th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Robert George Fry was born in 1895 at Charlton Kings, to Cornelius and Harriet Fry, who lived at 6 Andover Street, Park Place, Cheltenham. He enlisted at Cheltenham on 31 August 1914, giving his occupation as farm labourer. According to his Medal Index Card he arrived in the Balkans on 19

Royal Navy – HMS Vivid Ernest Grantley Gasser was born on 13 June 1889 at Sharpness, Gloucestershire. He was one of four sons and two daughters born to Thomas and Jane Gasser of Lock View, Sharpness Docks. His father was a butcher and grocer, who died in May 1909. Ernest enlisted on 3 April 1917

9th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Charles Frederick Freebury was born at Cheltenham in the fourth quarter of 1885, the son of Charles Henry and Sarah Jane Freebury. His father was a paper hanger’s painter and in the 1911 census Charles reported his occupation as a bricklayer. He had married Mary Ann (Polly) Weaver in the fourth

5th Training Squadron, Australian Flying Corps Charles Clarence Frederick was born in Spokane, Washington, USA on 7 February 1896 and was an American citizen at the time of enlistment. He was the son of Bruno R (German born) and Meeta L A Frederick, who were living at 77 Yui Au PO, Hutung, Peking, China. Prior