Gloucestershire War Graves Project

1st Battalion, Border Regiment James Travers Blount Dinwiddie was born on 25 April 1891 at Dumfries, Scotland and he was the son of James Blount and Agnes-Ellen Dinwiddie. Prior to the war he was educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey, which was followed by Pembroke College, Oxford, where he gained an honours degree in law. He […]

Royal Irish Fusiliers (Princess Victoria’s) Private Devine’s story is unusual in that there is no obvious Gloucestershire connection, other than where he died and is now buried. Samuel Robert Devine, to give his full name, was born in the Everton district of Liverpool on 23 July 1885, into a Protestant family with a strong Irish

7e Regiment de Ligne, Belgian Army Jacques Joseph Detrez was one of the first Belgian soldiers to come to Gloucester for treatment shortly after the outbreak of war based on a report of his funeral in the Gloucestershire Echo of 23 October 1918. Other information is contained on his Belgian military headstone in Gloucester Old

2nd Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment William Henry Denne was born on 15 July 1876 at Elkstone, near Cirencester. He was the third son of the late Rev Richard Henry and his wife Katherine (née Evans) of Brimpsfield. After being educated at Cheltenham College (from May 1891 to July 1895), he joined the Army in 1897 and

Royal Air Force George Frederick Delmar-Williamson was born on 10 January 1899 in Notting Hill, London and was the only son of Frederick and Emily Rowley Delmar-Williamson. He was educated at Glyngarth School and attended Cheltenham College between 1913 and 1915 after which he was accepted at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was gazetted

10th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers Vivian Augustus Evans was born in January 1894, the son of Thomas and Emily Evans of Forge Cottage, Lower Redbrook, Gloucestershire. His father was a woodman on an estate and by the time of the 1911 census the couple had had six children. He was an employee of Redbrook Tinplate

1st and 2nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers James Ferrand Dearden was born on 29 September 1896, the son of Peregrine Robert and Annie Abbott Dearden. He attended Cheltenham College between 1907 and 1913, from where he entered the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. On 1 October 1914 he was granted a commission in the 1st Battalion Royal

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Charles Dean was born in 1881, in Elkstone, Gloucestershire, the fourth child of George and Martha Maria Dean (née Bedwell). His siblings were Lilian (1875), Frederick (1877), and Marian (1878). In 1911, aged 30, he was single and living with his married sister in Elkstone and recorded as working as an

2nd Regiment de Carabiniers, Belgian Army Victor-Joseph de Martelaere was born on 18 July 1882 in Massamen near Ghent in Belgium. His father was an unnamed innkeeper and Marie de Martelaere. He was married to Angèle Verschelle but the various records do not show any children. He had been conscripted aged twenty in 1902 into

Royal Army Medical Corps (Depot) Walter John Davis was born at Purton in 1884, the son of Alfred (a pilot on the Gloucester to Sharpness Canal) and his wife Annie. The census of 1911 reveals that the couple had ten children, nine of whom were surviving at the date of the census and those family

11th company, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) William Henry Davis was born at Eastcombe, near Stroud in 1886, the son of Robert and Annie Davis. Robert was a ‘stick finisher’ – someone who mounted decorative fixings onto walking sticks. The 1911 census shows the couple had nine children, of whom eight were still living at that