Gloucestershire War Graves Project

440th Agricultural Company, Labour Corps William Edmund Barnett was born in Staunton, Gloucestershire in 1884, son of Thomas Barnett (1852-1950), a gardener, and Clara (formerly Hussey) (1852-1945). William was also employed as a domestic gardener. In 1909 he married Mary Jane Cassidy (1882-1953). There were three children of the marriage, Edmund Thomas born in February […]

6th Battalion, Alexandra Princess of Wales’ Own ( Yorkshire Regiment) Lionel Barnett was born in Cheltenham in the second quarter of 1892. He was the third eldest son of Henry Frederick (a fishmonger) and Mrs Sarah Barnett, who lived at 8 Oriel Place, Cheltenham. Before the war he worked for Thomas Plant, Outfitters, 18 The

Royal Engineers (Inland Water Transport) (Abraham) Harold Barnard was born in Gloucester in early 1891. He was the son of Joseph William and Sarah Barnard, who by the time of the 1911 Census had had nine children, eight of who were surviving. The family lived at 9 Old Tram Road, Albion Street, Gloucester and J

3rd Battalion, North Staffordshire (Prince of Wales’) Regiment Reginald Frank Bailey was born in Gloucester in 1898. He was the son of Frank Bailey (a railway locomotive fireman) and his wife Elizabeth Annie Amelia (née Winstone). He was one of six children (all surviving at the time of the 1911 Census), his brothers being Harry

1/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Richard Ayres was born at Frampton Mansell, Gloucestershire in 1864. He was baptised on 11 September 1864. He was the son of William (an agricultural labourer) and Martha Ayres. They died in 1896 and 1903 respectively. At the time of the 1871 Census the couple had five children. In 1889 Richard

10th Battalion, South Wales Borderers Hubert Charles Ayres was born in Avening in 1893. He was the son of John Ayres, an agricultural labourer and his wife Lucy Ann. Originally Lucy Ann Ind, she had been widowed by the time she was 28, having had a daughter (Rhoda May, born about 1881) and married John

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Charles Nelson Walton Aston was the son of Charles (a railway porter) and Elizabeth Aston and was born in Gloucester in the second quarter of 1877. At the time of the 1891 Census Charles was aged 13 and a ‘milk deliverer’, living at Millbrook Street, Gloucester. Ten years later, at the

Mercantile Marine Reserve – HMS Morea George Henry William Arnold was born at Chepstow in the fourth quarter of 1901. He was the youngest of five children born to blacksmith George Arnold and his wife Mary Ann E (née Lyes; born at Brockworth), whom he had married at Chepstow in 1889. At the time of

Royal Naval Air Service George Geoffrey Allen Armitage was born on 4 June 1893, at Gloucester, the son of Henry and Katherine Armitage of The Nab, Newnham on Severn. His father was a solicitor and Clerk to the Gloucester Board of Guardians. His early career was in the Merchant Navy and he gained his Second