Gloucestershire War Graves Project

7th (Reserve) Battalion, Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders James Fraser died in Cirencester and is buried there but that appears to be his only connection with the town. No Army Service or Pension Record appears to have survived for James and research into his background is not helped by his having a relatively common name. However, […]

3rd (Reserve) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Tom Franklin (who may have been known as ‘Peter’) was born around July 1897 at Ashleworth, Gloucestershire; he was baptised on 26 September 1897. His parents were Thomas Franklin (a farm labourer) and his wife Clara. According to the 1911 Census the couple had nine children and Tom was the

Royal Air Force According to his RAF record Arthur Henry Fox was born at Fairford on 17 January 1886 but the Register of Births states that his birth was registered in 1887. He was the son of Arthur (a house decorator) and Ellen Fox, who, at the time of the 1911 census had five children

1st Battalion, Honourable Artillery Company The following is taken from the Lancing College War Memorial website: http://hambo.org/lancing/ view_man.php?id=107 and is a very comprehensive account of Lance Corporal Fowler’s life, military service and circumstances of his death. Theodore Humphrey Fowler was born at Cirencester on the 25th of September 1879 the youngest son of Dr Oliver

2nd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Researching Private William Ford’s service in the Great War has been hampered by the fact that very few records have survived and the normally informative Army Service and Pension records appear to have been lost: no doubt the Service Record was one of those destroyed in a bombing raid on London

Royal Gloucestershire Hussars Percy Daniel Ford was born at Newent in the first quarter of 1888. He was the son of George and Sarah Ford of Rudford and the husband of Betha Ford (née Stephens) from Gloucester. He was the grandson of Daniel Ford, of Bridge Farm, Rudford. Before joining the army Percy was an

Royal Naval Division Information on James Ford is rather scant. It is known that he was born in Gloucester in the third quarter of 1876. The 1911 census records a ‘James Ford’ as living at Bilstone House, Ashleworth as a Man Servant (and evidently married) but we cannot be sure this is the same man.

542nd Home Service Employment Company, Labour Corps Charles Foden attested for military service under ‘Lord Derby’s Scheme’, which was the bridge between voluntary enlistment and full conscription. He was initially posted to the Royal Garrison Artillery. He was born in Moreton-in-Marsh in 1883, the son of Herbert Strettal Foden (1847-1889) and his wife Eliza (née

2nd Canadian Tank Battalion Glenn Eden Flintoff was born at Clinton, Ontario, Canada on 13 May 1898, the son of Elizabeth and the late George Flintoff. Elizabeth later re-married and became Mrs Etherington. They lived at Hensall, Ontario. He enlisted at Toronto, Ontario on 15 May 1918 for the duration of the war, giving his

Royal Army Medical Corps Samuel Enoch Fletcher was born in Pontypridd, Glamorganshire in 1868, the son of Samuel Fletcher (1844-1912) and Jane (formerly Williams) (born 1845). The family moved to Lydbrook about 1870. Samuel Fletcher (senior) worked in the Lydbrook Tinplate Works and was later joined by his son, who was recorded as a ‘tinplate

10th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Sydney Albert Fitts was born in the first quarter of 1884 at Cheltenham. According to the 1901 census he was a bricklayer and labourer. In the second quarter of 1903 he married and he and Alice Edith went on to have five children. The 1911 Census shows him as a labourer