Remembering

Royal Air Force & Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) George William Delmar-Williamson was born on 10 January 1899 in London, the only son of Frederick and Emily Delmar-Williamson. He was educated at Cheltenham College between 1913 and 1915 and then went on to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned as Lieutenant for the Black […]

6th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment George Henry James Daubeney was born on 5 July 1887, the son of Henry Elias and Eliza Hudson Daubeney of Balcarras, Charlton Kings. He was at Cheltenham College between 1901 and 1903 but nothing further is known of his activities until he received a commission as a Lieutenant in the 6th

55 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps (Henry) Norman Groves Dann was born on 9 June 1898 at Chalford, near Stroud. His parents were Henry Charles and Marie Dann of The Beeches, Thrupp, near Stroud. Mr Dann senior was a director of an umbrella and walking stick manufacturing company. Norman was educated at Wycliffe College and Berkhamsted

6th (Special Reserve) Battalion attached to 1st Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment John Ramsay Cox was born on 29 June 1873 in Yatton, Somerset to Catharine Margaret and William Charles Cox. The census of 1881 shows the family living at Ashley Lawn, Yatton with John’s three elder sisters Mary, Kathleen and Edith. William’s occupation at that time

54th Battalion, Australian Infantry Albert Ross Callaghan signed his Attestation papers as ‘Ross Callaghan’, so presumably that was the Christian name by which he was known. Ross Callaghan was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1887. When he attested he was living in the Surry Hills locality of Sydney and his occupation was a

2nd Battalion, King Edward’s Own Gurkha Rifles (Henry) Sullivan Becher was born in India on 9 April 1876, the only son of Lieutenant Colonel S E and Mrs C A Becher, of Kingswood House, Wotton-under-Edge. He was educated at Marlborough College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and was gazetted as a 2nd Lieutenant in

1st Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment George Alfred Beard was the son of George and Elizabeth Beard of 9 Burton Street in Cheltenham. After his older brother Charles was killed at the battle for Chunuk Bair in Gallipoli in 1915, he duly enlisted in the army in Bristol, serving in the Dorsetshire Regiment. Aged just 20, Private

D Battery, 58 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery William George Bartlett was born in the Cotswold village of Winson, Gloucestershire in 1886, the eldest child of Frank and Mary Bartlett. In February 1913 he married Laura Lydia Oatley at Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire and emigrated to Australia soon after, having gained permission of the army authorities as

Attached to 6th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers George Bernard Hamilton Bishop lived as a boy in Tredworth Road, Gloucester and attended King’s School. He went on to Culham College,Oxford, where he trained as a teacher and then on to Durham in preparation for ordination in the Church of England. As a young man he was an

Royal Gloucestershire Hussars (B Squadron 1st Troop) William (Bill) John Boulton was born on 18 March 1890 in Sheepscombe. His parents were Susan and John Boulton and he had two sisters, Isabel and Susan. Bill attended Sheepscombe School from 1894 to 1904. His father, John, was a journeyman baker and before the Great War the

8th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment George Edwin Bennett was born on 8 June 1877 in Campden and was the second son of Henry and Ann Bennett of Watery Lane. His father was a native of the town and in the early 1900s was trading as a baker selling bread from his home in the Square. After