Gloucestershire War Graves Project

19th (Training) Squadron, Royal Flying Corps Bernard Robert Hadow Carter was the third son born to the Rector of Slimbridge, Reverend James Octavius Holderness Carter and his wife Beatrice Helena (née Stone). He was born on 21 October 1898 at Headington near Oxford, where his father was conducting his ministry. By the time of the […]

3rd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment Albert Thomas Noah Carter was born in Gloucester in 1888. He was the son of Sidney and Agnes Carter, his father being a police sergeant. He had a sister, born about 1892. According to the Census taken in 1901, the family lived at Old Sodbury, near Chipping Sodbury. The Gloucestershire Journal

Royal Navy – HMS Vivid Redvers Thomas Comley was born at Cirencester on 4 September 1900, the elder son of Thomas W and Elizabeth Comley who, at the time of the 1911 census, lived at No 1 Dynevor Place, Fairford. His father was a slater and plasterer. At the time of enlistment Redvers gave his

Royal Navy – HMS Dublin Arthur Edward Comfort was the son of Elijah and Louisa Comfort of 5 Greet Road, Winchcombe. Elijah Comfort was born in Cheltenham in 1864 and in 1881 worked as a potter, living with his family in Exmouth Street. He had married in 1888 and he and Louisa had five children,

Royal Flying Corps James Glendenning Collins was born in March 1892 to Arthur and his wife, Agnes Glendinning (Collins). His father, Arthur, was a furnishing contractor and at the time he was born, the family lived at 8 Parliament Street, Gloucester but later moved to 90, London Road, Gloucester. James joined King’s School, Gloucester, as

3rd Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment Arthur Collins was born at Hamfallow, Berkeley in 1899, and according to the 1901 Census Arthur was listed as Arthur Hopkins, nephew to William and Esther Collins. William was employed as a cattleman farmer, he and his wife had three children of their own, all older than Arthur. Sometime before

2nd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Charles Coldrick was born in the St Mark’s Parish of Gloucester in 1889. He was the son of Thomas and Mary Coldrick, who had twelve children, ten of who survived up to the time of the 1911 Census. Thomas’ occupation was a plasterer and he died in 1910. On 20 January

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Henry James Carpenter was born at Tredworth, Gloucester in the first half of 1883. The parents were James Carpenter (1855-1922), a farm labourer and his wife Eliza (née Ackley: born 1853). They had had seven children, of whom six were living at the time of the 1911 census. Henry was the

Royal Navy – HMS Canada John St Erme Cardew was born on 3 December 1891 in Cheltenham to George Arthur Cardew MRCS and Alice Sophia Mary Cardew (née Barrett). He was educated privately and at the Royal Naval College, Osborne House, Isle of Wight. His siblings were Arthur Barrett (1888-1974) and Dorothy Mary (1893-1979). His

8th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Thomas James Cobert was born at Gloucester on 6 August 1895. His parents were James (a labourer) and Elizabeth (née Waters), who at that time lived at New Street, Gloucester. The couple had also had three daughters (Maggie, Dorothy Mary and Maria Magdeline). Maggie died at the age of one. It

2/4th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment Leonard Thomas Campin (his headstone indicates he was probably known as Willie) was born in 1884 in Stow-on-the-Wold. He was the son of John Edward and his wife Margaret Ellen (née Luker), who lived at Sheep Street, Stow-on-the-Wold. John Edward was a house painter. The 1901 Census indicates that the couple