Gloucestershire War Graves Project

9th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment James Bradley was a ‘Brummie’ whose Army service lasted less than six months and he never saw action. He was born at Small Heath, Birmingham in about 1887, the son of Bartley and Maria Bradley and at the time of the 1891 Census was living at Hednesford, Staffordshire. In 1901, when […]

Army Cyclist Corps Albert Thomas Blunt was born on 31 July 1892, one of eleven children born to Thomas and Mary Ann Blunt, who lived in the Kingsholm district of Gloucester. Nine of these children were surviving at the time of the 1911 Census. Thomas Blunt died in late 1898, aged 47 and it appears

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment James Ernest Bowstead was the son of Edward Charles and Sarah Jane Elizabeth Bowstead. His address was 22 Bloomsbury Street, Cheltenham: he is also associated with 12 St Paul’s Street South, Cheltenham. He was an old boy of Holy Trinity School. James’ regimental number indicates that he was probably a Special

Royal Navy – HMS Powerful Frank Harry Bowstead was born on 24 July 1900 at Cheltenham, the son of Charles Joseph and Sabona Bowstead of Arle Cottage, Tewkesbury Road, Cheltenham. He is recorded in the CWGC Register as serving with HMS Powerful. This was a ‘protected cruiser’ built in 1896, however, HMS Powerful ll and

Royal Engineers John Albert Blossett was born at Hereford in 1877, the son of James and Emma Blossett. Prior to joining the Army his trade was a chef. On 30 March 1902 he married Martha Jane Miles at St Martin’s Church, Hereford. She was five years younger than him and on 29 May 1902 she

Depot Battalion, Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) Francis George Blockley was born in the final months of 1899, the son of Thomas Blockley and his wife Emily (née Moulds). According to the 1911 Census Thomas was a jobbing gardener and the couple had five children, two of whom had died by the time of

12th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment George Blanch was born on 10 November 1880 at Scowles, near Coleford in the Forest of Dean. He was the son of Jeremiah and Harriet (née Perkins) Blanch, who at the time of the 1901 Census had seven children. In 1911 George was lodging with the Carter family at Sparrow Hill,

Royal Engineers (Waterways & Railways) John Wilfred Bowring was born on 10 March 1893 at South Cerney, one of six children born to William John Bowring (1869-1939), an agricultural labourer and his wife Rhoda Phyllis Selina (née Bateman: 1874-1954). Rather unusually, he was not baptised until 5 December 1910. At the time of the 1901

296th Railway Company, Royal Engineers Robert Stanley Bourne was born in Cheltenham on 24 December 1881, the eldest son of William and Katherine Bourne of 256 High Street, Cheltenham. He was educated at Christchurch Higher Grade School and upon leaving entered the plumbing trade. He married Emily, daughter of George Cresswell of 10 Blenheim Road,

2/4th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment William Thomas Blackwell was born in Cheltenham in the second quarter of 1888, the son of Arthur Ernest and Sarah Anne Blackwell. Arthur was a general labourer. In 1913 he married Tydvil Madeline Owens and the couple had a daughter, Irene Grace, born in October. He enlisted at Cheltenham in December

7th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Walter Eli Booth was born at Daglingworth, just north of Cirencester in early 1886. He was baptised there on 26 April of that year. His parents were Albert George Henry Booth (1857-1913) and Matilda (née Curtis; 1859-1936). Albert’s profession was a butcher. The couple had seven children, of whom six were