Gloucestershire War Graves Project

645th Mechanical Transport Company, Royal Army Service Corps Frank Elliott Burdock was one of five children born to Walter Henry and Caroline Burdock of Painswick. Walter’s father had started the building/plumbing/ decorating business of Burdock & Sons in 1832 and both Walter and Frank carried on the business which marked its 150th anniversary in 1982. […]

Royal Army Service Corps (HT) Regrettably I have been unable to establish Andrew Charles Buchanan’s parentage but know he had at least two siblings, Robert and James. Although no age was given on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) records or his memorial, based on the cemetery record Andrew would have been born c1888. He

Royal Navy – HMS Collingwood George Adolphus Baldwin was born at Panteg Parish, Monmouthshire on 5 November 1887. He was the son of James and Hannah Baldwin (née Meredith) and at the time of the Census in 1891, was the seventh of their nine children. James Baldwin was a locomotive driver. By the time of

Army Service Corps Hubert Emmanuel Browning was born at Longney, Gloucestershire in 1888. His parents were Adolphus Browning (1855-1934), a mariner who skippered vessels plying the coastal trade in the Bristol Channel and along the South Wales coast and his wife Sarah Ann (née Apperley: 1853- 1939). According to the 1911 Census, the couple had

2nd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Sidney Walter Charles Brookes was born in Newent, Gloucestershire in 1895 and baptised in Hartpury on 2 June 1895. He was the eldest son of Francis George Brookes and Louisa (née Bendall) of Broad Street Hartpury, previously of Woolridge, Gloucester. According to the 1911 Census, Francis and Louisa stated that they

1st London Sanitary Section, Royal Army Medical Corps Although there are significant gaps in our knowledge of Frederic Brocklehurst’s military career, he appears to have been an educated man, who served for a large part of the war. Frederic Heathcote Brocklehurst was born at Eton, near Slough, in the latter part of 1891. His parents

7th Battalion, The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment William Brinkworth was born in Gloucester in 1898. His parents were Thomas and Susannah (known as Annie) and according to the 1911 Census the couple had six children, of whom five were surviving. Thomas was an engine stoker at a flour mill and the family lived at

10th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Henry Wycliffe Brewis was born in Hornsey, London on 8 May 1894: he was the youngest of Samuel and Emma Chambers Brewis’ five children, three of whom were daughters. Samuel Brewis was a coal merchant and the family lived at Mount Waltham, 47 Netherhall Gardens, Hampstead, London NW3. He initially joined

25th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) Frederick John Baldwin was born in the first quarter of 1873 at Cheltenham where he enlisted.He had previously served for twelve years with the colours in the Royal Marine Light Infantry and nine in the Naval Reserve. On the outbreak of the Great War he volunteered for

17th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers William Gilbert Boucher was the second of five children born to Charles and Anna Boucher (variously spelt as Bowsher/Baucher on Ancestry). Charles was born in Kingston St Michael in Wiltshire in 1861 and Anna in Avening, five years later. The couple were married in Kingston in 1884 and by 1888 were

5th Battalion, Border Regiment George Albert Booth came from the East End of London, born in 1880 at Stepney, one of six children born to Thomas Wilson Booth and his wife Mary Ann. According to both the 1901 and 1911 Census his occupation was a print machine worker, however, on his attestation papers for military