Gloucestershire War Graves Project

‘Y’ Company, Army Service Corps Thomas Townley was born in Charlton Kings, Cheltenham in the early part of 1850 and he was baptised on 21 April that year. His parents were Robert (a labourer, born in 1811) and Hannah (a laundry worker, born 1814). As far as can be ascertained, the couple had seven children,

7th Training Squadron, Australian Flying Corps George Robert Thompson was born at South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 8 August 1891, the son of Alexander J and Mary Thompson, of St Kilda, Victoria. He was a married man by the time of the Great War, his next of kin being Mrs M L Thompson of Vacuna.

3rd Battalion, Welsh Regiment George Henry Thomas was born at Newtown, Steam Mills in late 1890, the son of Joseph Henry and Emma Jane Thomas. Joseph Henry Thomas was a tinplate worker, later a coal miner. In 1901 the family were living on Ruardean Hill. By 1911 George Henry Thomas had moved to South Wales,

5th Battalion, Duke of Edinburgh’s (Wiltshire Regiment) George Daniel Thomas was a Londoner, almost certainly someone who answered Lord Kitchener’s call for volunteers and who died only months into training. He was born on 27 October 1888 in North London and was baptised on 4 April 1889. His parents were Daniel George Thomas (1861-1938) and

Inns of Court Officer Training Corps Charles Terry was one of a substantial number of men who had gone to live and work in far flung places of the British Empire yet returned to fight for their homeland during the Great War Charles Warwick Terry was born in Penge, London SE on 28 February 1880,

3rd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Raymond George Telling was born in 1869 at Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire, the son of Fred and Sarah Telling. He was a professional soldier, who spent over 20 years with the colours, having originally enlisted at Cirencester on 22 April 1887, when aged 19 and a labourer. He initially joined the 4th

386th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery Frank George Teal was born at Wiggold, Cirencester in the first quarter of 1898. His parents were George and Elizabeth Ann Teal. George Teal was a groom on a farm and the 1911 Census records the family (which included three children, Frank being the youngest) living at 63 Wiggold.

8th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment William George Taylor was born in Stow-on-theWold in 1888, the son of George Taylor and Sarah Palmer Clifford. His siblings were Maud Winifred (1889-1973), Florence Maria (1891-1980), Rhoda Violet (1894-1896), Daisy Hannah (1896-1896), Reginald Percival (1898-1959), Norman Victor (1901), Lucy Mayellen (1903). In 1891, he was living with parents and sibling

82nd Provisional Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment It is unfortunately not possible to be certain when George Henry Taylor was born and therefore confirm a baptism or parent details as there are two or three possible George Taylors born in the Stroud area. His obituary states he was 41 giving him a birth date of 1874 or

Army Service Corps Frederick William Taylor was born in Tewkesbury in 1898 to Frederick William Taylor and Theresa Taylor (also formerly Taylor and whose forename was registered as Thirza at her birth and Thursa when she married in 1895). Both Frederick William (senior) and Theresa were born in Walton, Cardiff and she was the daughter

Royal Air Force Frank Arthur Taylor was the son of Frank Arthur Taylor (a pattern maker) and his wife, Emma, who lived at 99 Melbourne Street, Gloucester. They had seven children, all of whom were surviving at the time of the 1911 Census. On the 1901 Census return Frank (junior) is recorded with the name