Remembering

6th Battalion (attached to 1st Battalion) Middlesex Regiment Lieutenant Douglas Woulfe Hay was born on 31 January 1897, the only son of Lieutenant Colonel H T Hay, late of Indian Army and 2nd/4th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, and Margaret M Hay, of Stanley Lodge, Battledown, Cheltenham. Douglas attended Cheltenham College between 1911 and 1916 and thereafter […]

2/5 Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment Eric Howard Harvey was born at Murrellsend, Hartpury and baptised at the local church on 25 April 1890, the second of four sons of Howard and Tillie Harvey. His older brother Frederick William (Will) had been born there on 26 March 1888. The family moved in 1891 to Parlours Farm which

2/4th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Augustus Frederick Gibbons was the son of Frederick and Sarah Gibbons, who lived at 80 Upper Bath Road, Cheltenham. He was born in about 1881. According to the 1911 Census his occupation was a greengrocer’s assistant, which was his occupation on attestation. On 11 December 1915 he attested into the Gloucestershire

2nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment George Norton Gastrell was the son of Edward and Susanna who lived at Dingle Holme, Hucclecote. Before the war he was an active member of the community having been a member of the Church Lads’ Brigade and playing football for St Philip’s AFC. He was an employee of the ironmongers

10th Battalion,Worcestershire Regiment Arthur Thomas Fowler was born and bred in Charfield and was a textile mill hand. He was eighteen years of age at the start of the Great War but declared himself one year older when enlisting for Army service at Wotton-under-Edge, on 3 September 1914. He joined the 10th Worcesters at Tidworth

1st Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment Alfred Thomas Fortey was born in Gloucester in 1884, the son of William and Mary Jane Fortey. His mother died when he was six years of age and his father later remarried. He worked as a labourer for Mr James Byard, builder, and also served, pre-war, in the Gloucestershire Regiment (although

3rd Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment Cyril Cazalet Harrison was born on 13 July 1891 in Colombo, Ceylon to Hilda Beaumont and Harry Cazalet Harrison. He was baptised at St Michael and All Angels, Colombo on 10 August. The couple had three other children – Maurice Cazalet, Alan George Cazalet and Lettice Cazalet. Cyril’s parents married at

2nd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders Kenneth Forbes-Robertson was born in Yorkshire to Farquahar and Laura Forbes-Robertson . He was educated at Cheltenham College between 1885 and 1899 and subsequently went on to the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. A career soldier he served with distinction in, amongst other countries, Somaliland and India before the Great War

183rd Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers Elim Harris was born in Cinderford, in the Forest of Dean, in 1899, the son of Thomas and Sarah Harris of Church Road. After attending Double View Secondary School in the town he was employed as a collier at the local Lightmoor Colliery. When war broke out he was an

10th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Richard Hubert Hanks was born at Painswick on 6 March 1890. Prior to enlistment he was a bricklayer with local builders Burdock & Sons and also a Hireman with the local brigade. He played cricket for Painswick and was a bell ringer and chorister at the parish church. He enlisted at

13th Battalion Devonshire Regiment (39547) & Labour Corps (144796) Mark William Hall was born in Cheltenham in 1898 to William and Celia Hall. At the outbreak of war he was living at the family home at 2 Stairfield Walk in Leckhampton with his parents and four younger siblings. He was employed as a pastry cook,