Remembering

1st Battalion Worcestershire Regiment. Charles Cox was born just outside Gotherington near Bishop’s Cleeve in 1899 and subsequently was brought up in Cheltenham, living at 9 Grosvenor Place. He enlisted in the Gloucestershire Regiment in Cheltenham as No 51712 but was then transferred to the Worcestershire Regiment. He was sent overseas to France in September […]

11th Battalion, Manchester Regiment James Stanley Young (known as Stanley or Stan) was born in 1889, the son of Thomas and Fanny Young of Church Road, Cinderford. Stanley Young spent some of his childhood in Tamworth before the family returned to Cinderford. He attended Double View Secondary School in the town and afterwards took up

16th Battalion Cheshire Regiment(attached to 7th Battalion Queen’s Own – Royal West Kent Regiment) At Great Rissington Church there is a picture frame containing the photographs of the five brothers from the village who were killed during the Great War. The sons of William and Annie Souls – Albert, Walter, Frederick, Alfred and Arthur all

HMS Pegasus – Royal Navy Douglas Harry Wright was born in Gloucester on 10 June 1895 and had joined the Royal Navy at Devonport prior to the outbreak of war. Much of his early life had been spent in Cheltenham. The Great War was less than two months old when the 2,135 ton protected cruiser

11th Battalion Cheshire Regiment At Great Rissington Church there is a picture frame containing the photographs of the five brothers from the village who were killed during the Great War. The sons of William and Annie Souls – Albert, Walter, Frederick, Alfred and Arthur all died within two years of each other; Alfred and Arthur

16th Battalion Cheshire Regiment At Great Rissington Church there is a picture frame containing the photographs of the five brothers from the village who were killed during the Great War. The sons of William and Annie Souls – Albert, Walter, Frederick, Alfred and Arthur all died within two years of each other; Alfred and Arthur

1st/6th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment Ellis James (Jack) Workman was born in Gloucester in 1889, one of three children born to Elia and Alice Mary Workman. A printer by trade, he attested for four years service in the Territorial Force (TF) at Stafford on 16 September 1914 and joined the 1/6 North Staffordshires. On 5

5th Brigade Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) At Great Rissington Church there is a picture frame containing the photographs of the five brothers from the village who were killed during the Great War. The sons of William and Annie Souls – Albert, Walter, Frederick, Alfred and Arthur all died within two years of each other; Alfred

5th Brigade Machine Gun Corps At Great Rissington Church there is a picture frame containing the photographs of the five brothers from the village who were killed during the Great War. The sons of William and Annie Souls – Albert, Walter, Frederick, Alfred and Arthur all died within two years of each other; Alfred and

Royal Navy, HMS Gurkha Harold Courtnay Woollcombe-Boyce was born on 30 March 1887. Both his parents died within a week of one another in January 1892 and he was brought up by his grandfather, the Rev W F R Woollcombe-Boyce, who taught mathematics at Cheltenham College for 37 years, and his aunt, with whom he

1/5 Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment Stanley George Wilson was born in Cheltenham but at an early age moved to Saffron Walden, Essex with his family, where he attended the Boys’ British School. He went on to take an apprenticeship with a local printer and upon its completion obtained a job as a journeyman printer with Norman