Gloucestershire War Graves Project

Royal Air Force Hubert Frank Fisher was born on 29 September 1884 at Gloucester, the younger son of Mr and Mrs J A Fisher of 5 Heathville Road, Gloucester. He was educated at Bedford School and took an engineering course at King’s College, London and upon completing his training went to Argentina in about 1905. […]

8th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment There is very little information on Private Garraway’s Army service, probably because it was of very short duration. Archibald Frank Garraway was born in Tetbury in 1879 (he was baptised there on 4 May 1879). He was one of eight children, born between 1876-1891) to William Garraway (1852-1918) and his wife

9th Battalion, Royal Lincolnshire Regiment According to Leaving all that was dear – Cheltenham in the Great War by Joe Devereux and Graham Sacker: Henry Montfort Gardner was the son of Richard Gardner, a solicitor and Mary Ellen Gardner of Leamington Spa. He was commissioned into the army in 1886 and saw all his military

Royal Army Service Corps David Gardner was born in Gloucester in the first half of 1897. He was the son of Leonard Gardner who was an interior decorator (and lived from 1860 to 1903) and his wife Kezia (née Royston; 1859-1941), who was a worker in a pin factory. As far as can be ascertained,

2nd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers Thomas Flannery was born in Galway, Ireland, in 1891, son of Martin Flannery a farmer. He attested at Nottingham on 15 January 1915 for service with 4th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters and was instead posted to 3rd Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers. He landed in France on 3 August 1915 but did not join

1/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Henry James Fisher was born in Stroud on 23 March 1898 to Henry and Alice Fisher (née Tooze). Henry senior was born in Burton on Trent and Alice in Stroud. Henry senior’s father’s occupation was maltster so it is possible the family came to Stroud in approximately 1876 to follow this

5th Training Squadron, Australian Flying Corps Edgar Thomas Filmer was born at Taralgon, Victoria, Australia on 8 November 1899, the son of Edgar Stephen and Kate Mason Filmer, of Sarsfield, Gippsland, Victoria. He was a carpenter by trade and enlisted into the Australian Flying Corps (AFC), as an Air Mechanic Second Class at sale, Victoria

15th Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps Joshua Haddon Fenton was born in Woollahra, New South Wales (NSW), Australia in about 1892. His parents were Charles and Eleanor Mary Fenton and at the time of the Great War they were living at 11 Prospect Road, Summer Hill, Sydney, NSW. Joshua left his position as a

2/7th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment William James Evans was born in Cheltenham in the third quarter of 1899 , the fourth child (third son) of James and Annie Evans who, according to the 1911 census, had ten children and at that time were living at 11 Guestriss Cottages, Guestriss Terrace. Marhill. His father was a

11th (South Antrim) Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles John Joseph Dougherty was born in Whitehaven, Cumberland in about 1883. He was the husband of Florence Sarah and lived at Paragon House, Bath Road, Cheltenham. He enlisted for the duration of the war on 7 September 1914 and was posted to the King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment

Labour Corps Ernest William Douel was born in 1880 in Bedminster, Bristol, and was the son of William John Douel (1851-1905) a porter and his wife Sarah (née Robins: 1856-1900). It would appear that he was the eldest of their six children. His siblings were Arthur Henry (born 1882), Mabel Florence Annie (1886); Charles Joseph