Gloucestershire War Graves Project

5th Training Squadron, Australian Flying Corps Jack Henry Weingarth was probably the most experienced of pilot buried in Leighterton Church Cemetery. He was born at Marrickville, New South Wales (NSW), Australia on 17 May 1892, the son of John L and Gertrude Weingarth of Linden, Ethan Avenue, Darling Point, Sydney (latterly 10 Castlereagh Street, Sydney). […]

Royal Naval Reserve According to Joseph Webster’s Service Record in the National Archives (ADM 188/114) he was born at Over, Gloucester on 29 September 1860. However, it has not proved possible to verify this via Ancestry. He joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second class on 26 February 1877 and worked his way up

10th Battalion (Alberta), Canadian Infantry Frank Trevor Webster was born on 20 September 1885 at Tirionfa, Chalford Hill, near Stroud. He was the eldest of five sons born to Frank Applin and Mary Webster, neither of which were local. Frank was born in Lymington, Hampshire, his father being a Master Mariner, and Mary was born

3rd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment Jesse George Webber, who was born on 27 August 1870 at Shrewton, Salisbury, Wiltshire, the illegitimate son of Ellen Webber, was registered at Amesbury, Wiltshire as Jesse Green Webber. It is understood his father was a Mr Green. Ellen Webber died on 10 April 1871, aged 28 years, and the 1881

2/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment William George Webb was born in Upton St Leonards in 1897 (he was baptised on 5 December of that year). His parents were John Webb (1876-1947), a labourer carving timber and his wife Anne Elizabeth (née Day: 1877-1961). The couple had four children, three boys and a girl and William was

Royal Army Medical Corps This biography is the result of research on Ancestry and correspondence with family members — descendants of William’s children. The name ‘Orchard’ caused initial problems in research for both myself and the family. William Dick Orchard Webb was the sixth of seven children born to Letitia and James Webb of Tower

Railway Transport Depot, Royal Engineers It is fortunate that at least part of Valentine Webb’s Service and Pension Records has survived as information from other sources, such as the CWGC Register, Soldiers Died in the Great War and local newspapers is either sparse or non-existent. However, the census records are a useful source. His full

4th (Reserve) Battalion, Hampshire Regiment Stanley Webb’s story appears to be the all too familiar; one of a young soldier, struck down by illness, whilst in training. Stanley Webb was born at Leonard Stanley in the second quarter 1899, the son of Frederick William Webb (1865-1944) and his wife Amy Ellen (née Peaple: 1863-1939). The

3/6th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Harry St Clair Clifford Webb was born in Charlton Kings in 1879 and was a painter by trade; prior to the war he had been employed by Messrs C H Rainger of 9/10 Bath Place, Cheltenham. In 1900 he had married Winifred Helen Furley at Cheltenham and the couple had two

8th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Edwin Weaving was born in Churchdown, near Gloucester in 1881. His parents were Edwin Weaving, a labourer and his wife Emma (née Smith). It is not certain how many siblings he had but it was possibly two brothers and two sisters. Edwin (senior) had died by 17 March 1904, when his

4th (Reserve) Battalion, Grenadier Guards Arthur George Weaving was born at Minsterworth, Gloucestershire in 1897 (he was baptised on 24 May 1897). His parents were Albert Henry Weaving (1871-1934) a farm labourer and his wife Fanny (née Smith: 1865-1950). The couple had four children, of who Arthur was the eldest. One daughter, born in 1902,