Gloucestershire War Graves Project

Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Sydney Francis Bond was the third son of Sydney Bond (a saddler and harness maker) and his wife Elizabeth. He was born at St Briavels in the Forest of Dean on 16 October 1900. The family had previously lived in Wales before taking up residence at The Willows, Longford, Gloucester. Young […]

11th Battalion, Leicester Regiment Thomas William Bolter was born at Hillmarton, a village between Calne and Wootton Bassett in north Wiltshire, on 12 July 1896. His parents were Richard William Bolter (1852-1935), a farmer and his wife Emily Jane (née Jefferys: 1862-1948). The couple had five children, born between 1894 and 1904 and Thomas was

Royal Engineers (Tunnelling Company Depot) Arthur James Bloodworth was the son of Walter and Elizabeth Bloodworth and was born at Dursley either in the last weeks of 1881 or early in 1882. He was a carpenter by trade, with King & Co in Gloucester and it was that trade that he took into the Army,

Royal Navy – HMS Suffolk Arthur Edward Birt was born in Lambeth, south east London on 30 March 1875. He was the son of Daniel and Eliza Birt of 8 Spring Gardens. After a short period as a postman he joined the Royal Navy as a Boy entrant and the 1891 Census shows him as

8th Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment Francis Biggs, known as Frank Biggs, was born in Woolaston in 1879, son of Elizabeth Biggs (1841-1919), his father is unknown. In 1881 Elizabeth Biggs, unmarried, and her six children, was housekeeper to a William Davis, a shoemaker, in Woolaston. In 1885 she married Francis Williams of Sand Tumps, Woolaston. Frank

Royal Garrison Artillery George Rowland Bennett was born in Coleford in 1871, the son of George and Hannah Bennett. He was a blacksmith by trade. He attested as a Gunner 93192 in the Royal Artillery on 28 September 1892 and was discharged at the end of his period of service on 27 September 1904. He

Royal Navy – HMS Pembroke Christopher Edgar Biggs was born in the Parish of St Mary, Gloucester, on 27 July 1860. Prior to joining the Royal Navy (RN) he was a labourer. He entered RN service on 7 September 1876, when aged fifteen. His base was Chatham. He served on various ships in the Victorian

3rd South Midland Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps (TF) Harry Gilbert Bick was born at Sharpness in second quarter of 1887. He was the son of John and Fanny Maria Bick, who had ten children, all but one having survived up to the time of the 1911 Census. At the time of the 1891

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment It is believed that William James Bendall was born in Berkeley, Gloucestershire in 1889, the son of William and Mary Bendall, his father’s occupation (according to the 1891 Census) being a dock labourer (no doubt at the neighbouring Sharpness Docks). It would appear that William followed on from his father as

94th Battalion, Training Reserve Jeffrey Beesley was born in Coln St Aldwyns, Gloucestershire in 1898, the eldest son of Edwin Joseph and Sarah Beesley (née Stone), of 2 Redgrove Cottages, Hatherley Lane, Cheltenham. His siblings were Janette (1897), Lilian (1900) and Leslie (1902-1953). Jeffrey enlisted in Cheltenham on 13 October 1916 when he was aged

9th Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps Joseph Scorfield Beatty was an Ulsterman, born in Armagh in 1873. He was the son of William and Catherine A Beatty. The CWGC ‘Debt of Honour’ Register gives an unusually large amount of information on Joseph. From this we know that he was a pre-war professional soldier who had