Remembering

2nd Battalion Worcestershire Regimentattached to 17th Indian Infantry (The Loyal Regiment) Theodore John Bennett was born at Cairncross, Stroud on 1 November 1893, the youngest son of Mr and Mrs Charles Bennett of Frome Park Road, Stroud. He was educated at Marling School and took up employment with Messrs Randell & Payne, Chartered Accountants at […]

Royal Gloucestershire Hussars John Crosbie Bengough was born in 1889 in a large country house, two miles north of Wotton-under-Edge. His father was a JP and his grandfather had been High Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1877. He was educated at Rugby School and graduated from Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1911. He obtained a commission in

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment William Bendall was born in Berkeley in 1889, the son of Sharpness dock worker William and hiswife Mary. William (junior) followed his father into dock work and married Mary Malpass in1908. Unfortunately no Army Service Record has survived for William but such information that isavailable shows him joining the 1st Battalion,

1/6 Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment Frank Brain was born on 16 October 1895, one of the ten children of Tom and Emma Brain of Myrtle Cottage, Harry Hill, Drybrook. After leaving school he worked as a coal miner at the Lydney and Crump Meadow Colliery at Cinderford. He was a music lover – being a chorister

10th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Charles Thomas Brain was born in Campden on 26 July 1896, the second son of John and Mary Katharine Brain of Watery Lane, and was baptised at St James’s Church on 6 September of that year. His father was an agricultural labourer. At the age of 18 Charles enlisted in the

1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Albert is on the left,seen here with his brother Henry Jacob Albert Charles Brading was born in Gloucester in 1887, the third of ten children, to George Henry and Ann Brading. By 1901 the family had moved to Hinton near Sharpness. When he was older Albert worked as a farm labourer

15th Battalion Hampshire Regiment Wilfred Colin Arkell was born in 1899, the sixth of seven sons of John and Hannah Jane Arkell of Drybrook. He also had four sisters. After attending Holy Trinity School, Drybrook he was apprenticed in the tailoring and clothing department of the Cinderford Co-operative Society where he served for four and

62nd Company Machine Gun Corps Campbell Hudson was born on 12 December 1886, the only son of John Owen and Alice Hudson of Ruspidge, Cinderford. John Owen Hudson owned a grocery store. Campbell was educated at Colston School, Bristol. His father died in 1895 and his mother continued to run the store. Campbell did not