Remembering

1/5th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment Tyne Cot Memorial John Herbert Charles White was a former Cirencester Grammar School boy, who went on to be a solicitor’s clerk in Cirencester, prior to joining the 1/5th Glosters upon the outbreak of war. He was a grenadier with ‘B’ company, when 1/5 Glosters first went to France on 29 […]

7th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry Frederick White was born in Great Tew, near Enstone in Oxfordshire, and enlisted in Cirencester. He served as 32046 Private Frederick White in the Worcestershire Regiment before being transferred to the Somerset Light Infantry; at some stage he also served with the Gloucestershire Regiment. He was the son of George

7th Battalion Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment Miles John Sterry was born in early 1885 at Edge Hills near Cinderford. He was the son of coalminer John Sterry and his wife Elizabeth. He was christened at Holy Trinity Church, Drybrook on 29 March 1885. By 1891 the family had moved into Cinderford and lived

North Irish Horse (attached to 6th Battalion Tank Corps) Richard Annesley West was born in the Oxford Street area of Cheltenham on 26 September 1878. He served as a trooper with the Imperial Yeomanry during the Boer War. He remained in South Africa until 1914 when he returned home and was commissioned into the North

5th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders William Cecil Wellicombe (or Willie as he was known) was born in Marlow, Buckinghamshire in May 1890. He was educated there and in Suffolk and after studying at London University he undertook several teaching jobs before arriving at Katherine Lady Berkeley’s Grammar School, Wotton-under-Edge, in September 1912, where he taught Latin,

8th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment From The Graphic – Edward Vick is in the centre Edward Vick was born in Cheltenham on 12 November 1888 to Benjamin and Elizabeth Vick who lived at 17 Fairview Road, Cheltenham. He was educated a t All Saints’ School, Cheltenham. On 7 September 1914 he enlisted into the 10th Battalion

Machine Gun Corps (Tanks) Ernest John Buffin was born at Fairplay Cottages, Plump Hill, Mitcheldean in 1896, the son of Henry and Elizabeth Buffin. He started his working life as a hod boy in a local colliery (hod boys were employed to drag wooden boxes on skids loaded with coal from the coalface, a menial

17th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers John Emerton Sanders was the elder son of Richard and Charlotte Hay Sanders of Homestead, Old Bath Road, Cheltenham. He was educated at Wycliffe College, Stonehouse between 1909 and 1914 and on the outbreak of war applied for a commission in the Army. Impatient at the seeming delay, he enlisted as

2/5th (Territorial) Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment Brian Fitzgerald Ventris-Field was the son of Alfred Ventris-Field a surgeon-chiropodist who practised at 6 Rodney Place in Cheltenham. Brian, along with his brother Victor, worked at the Gloucestershire Echo before enlisting together in the 2/5th (Territorial) Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment on 21 September 1914. They went overseas to France in

8th Battalion, The Black Watch James Rutherford was born in 1891 and was an offce worker in Edinburgh when the war broke out. He was one of the first 100,000 to volunteer, an honoured status within Kitchener’s Army, when he joined the 8th Battalion The Black Watch in September 1914. The battalion crossed to France

HMS Torrent – Royal Navy John Creed Rudge was born on 3 August 1895 at Wotton-under-Edge, where he also went to school. He was one of seven children. As a young man he worked as telegraph messenger in Wotton’s Post Office and was a member of the local Baptist Church. In 1910, aged 15, John