Remembering

1/2 (North Midland) Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps Herbert (Bert) Jotcham was born on 28 August 1888, at Wotton-under-Edge, one of eight children. He left school at 14 and was apprenticed to a gentlemen’s outfitters in the town, where he worked for five years. He also worked in various other towns before ending up

Royal Navy – HMS Viknor William King was almost 50 years old when he re-joined the Royal Navy at the start of the Great War. Born at Northfleet, Kent on 30 September 1864, his early naval career had been with the Royal Marine Artillery. Serving on board the heavy cruiser HMS Terrible he would have

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Lewis Richard Hopkins was born at Longborough in 1883, the son of Richard and Hannah Hopkins. Richard senior appears to have spent some of his life as a farmer, a sub-postmaster and latterly as a roadman with the local council. According to the 1911 Census the couple had ten children, of

13th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Hugh Jones was born at Lydney on 21 December 1888 and educated at Wycliffe College, Stonehouse. Here he excelled at cricket and football and was voted the house prize for ‘gentlemanliness and kindness’ by his fellow students. Upon completing education he spent a year with a shipping office in Bristol, before

4th Siege Company Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers Charles Spencer Jones was born in 1888 in Cardiff but came to live at Steam Mills near Cinderford in about 1894. He worked with his father Thomas as iron founders at Teague & Chew, Heywood Engine Works, Steam Mills, an engineering company that specialised in the manufacture of

12th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment Charles Henry Joiner was born in 1874 to Henry and Hester at Hallen near Bristol. He had two brothers and three sisters. Charles was married to Emma Kingscott and they lived at Upper Soudley near Cinderford. He enlisted in ‘Bristol’s Own’ Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment at Cinderford in March 1915.

1st Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment Hugh Godfrey de Lisle Bush was born in 1892 at Alveston (near Thornbury), the eldest of three sons and a daughter born to Alfred George de Lisle Bush and his wife Florence Katherine (nee Lysaght). His father was an iron merchant and the family lived at Eastington Park, near Stonehouse.He was

Machine Gun Corps (Tanks) Ernest John Buffin was born at Fairplay Cottages, Plump Hill, Mitcheldean in 1896, the son of Henry and Elizabeth Buffin. He started his working life as a hod boy in a local colliery (hod boys were employed to drag wooden boxes on skids loaded with coal from the coalface, a menial

10th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment Richard William Jennings was born on 6 March 1889 in King’s Stanley, the son of the Reverend Arthur C Jennings. He studied law at Cambridge and when war broke out he was due to commence a career as a solicitor, instead he enlisted in the Worcestershire Regiment. He became a respected