Remembering

A Coy, 2nd Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment The four sons of Mr & Mrs Hughes. In the front row are Albert, on the left and Harry, on the right. Almost 200 sets of brothers have been identified as having died on the same day whilst serving with British and Empire forces in the Great War. One […]

Gloucestershire Regiment Arthur McCulloch Inglis was born 14 July 1884 at the Caledonian Hotel, Inverness, Scotland. He was the second son of Lionel Arthur Lister Inglis, born in Bengal in 1845, and Agnes Kate Inglis (née Murrell), born Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, and was therefore Anglo-Indian. His sibling Lionel was born in 1882 in Cheltenham, and his

Royal Navy – HMS Hawke Rupert Henry Ingles-Chamberlayne was born on 4 July 1897. He was the son of Henry and his second wife Grace Ingles-Chamberlayne, who lived at The Hyde, Stow-on-the-Wold. Rupert joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Cadet in 1910 and became a student at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, on the

Royal Garrison Artillery Charles Francis Hutchings was born at Redditch, Worcestershire on 24 June 1883. His parents were Ion John and Hannah Sarah Hutchings (née Sloman) and he had four sisters – Ethel Lavinia, born 1885; Alice Mabel (1887); Annie Elizabeth (1893) and Louisa (1878). Charles received his education at Board Schools at Redditch and

4th Battalion Australian Infantry Bernard John Browning was born at Upton on Severn. Until 1910 he lived with his parents at Severn Farm, near Quedgeley, when he emigrated to New South Wales in Australia and became a vehicle driver.He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 10 August 1915 at Warwick Farm, New South Wales

Royal Air Force Hedley Goldsmith Browne was born on 15 June 1888 in Norwich, the son of John Goldsmith and Edith A Browne. His father was an insurance clerk. According to the 1901 Census the couple had three sons and one daughter and the family lived at 26 York Street, Norwich. Prior to his military

13th (Service) (Forest of Dean) Battalion (Pioneers) Gloucestershire Regiment George Hewlett was born in 1889, the son of Samuel and Matilda Hewlett of Ruspidge, Cinderford. After leaving Double View Secondary School he joined his father and brothers working underground at the Eastern United Colliery in Ruspidge. He married Florence Simmonds in 1910 and they eventually

Essex Yeomanry Oliver Brown was born in 1890, the son of George and Mary Jane Brown, Church Road, Cinderford. He attended Double View Secondary School in the town, and afterwards worked as a haulier in one of the local collieries. He enlisted on 29 March 1915 as 2218 Gunner O Brown in the 3rd South

32nd Training Depot Station, Royal Air Force William Douglas Henderson, known better as Douglas, was born on 8 December 1893. He was the son of Alexander Henderson, a draper, and his wife Mary who between them had a total of no less than nine children. When Douglas was very young, the family lived at Clarence

3rd Battalion (attached to 1st Battalion) Gloucestershire Regiment Laurence* Clerke Brown was born on 1 September 1892 at Winson, Gloucestershire. He was one of three children born to Blanche and George Clerke Brown; his brother Richard was also killed in the war.Laurence was educated at Durnford School, Langton Matravers, Dorset. He joined the Gloucestershire Regiment

1st Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment (William) Rufus Kennard Heath (born in 1886) was one of Jive children born to William and Annie Heath of Kingswood House, near Wotton-under-Edge. His father was, for 16 years, the manager of the Co-operative Bank in Gloucester. Rufus was educated at Katherine Lady Berkeley’s Grammar School, Wotton-under-Edge and obtained a commission