Remembering

1st Battalion Border Regiment Herbert Sidney Park was born in Stroud on 3 June 1894, the son of Sidney Benyon Park and Ellen Park, who also had a daughter and the family lived at Highmead, Field Road, Stroud. He was educated at Wycliffe College, Stonehouse from 1904 – 1910, where he was a member of […]

1/5 Gloucestershire Regiment Alan John Trinder was born in Cirencester and lived at Querns Hill. He enlisted at Swindon in August 1914 and went to France with the 1/5 Glosters on 29 March 1915. In July and August 1916, the Battalion was involved in heavy fighting around the Somme villages of Ovillers and Pozieres. On

Royal Field Artillery Sydney Vyvyan Trevenen was born on 2 January 1894, the son of a Cheltenham solicitor living in Christchurch Road. He was educated at Cheltenham College between 1908 and 1911 and then, having been accepted at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich, moved away from his home town. On 19 December 1913, Trevenen was

1/5th Battalion, Devonshire Regiment Norman is the middle boy in this school photograph Norman Sollars was born on 2 July 1898 to Samuel and Mary who were living in Far End, Sheepscombe. Samuel was a gardener at Skippetts and the path across the common to Skippetts was known as Sam Sollars path. Norman went to

Grenadier Guards Reginald Thomas Packer was born in Stroud in July 1895, the son of William and Harriett Packer.In 1901 the family were living at the Police Station in Painswick, where William Packer was Sergeant. In January 1909 the family moved to Cinderford when William Packer was promoted to Inspector in Charge. Reginald attended Double

1st Battalion East Lancashire Regiment Walter Roy Tosswill was born in 1894 to Walter and Edith who lived in Clayhill, Lechlade, Gloucestershire. His family later moved to Cheltenham where they initially lived at The Oaklands and later Rosehill before going on to reside in the small village of Woolstone just north of Cheltenham. In 1907

C Company, 10th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment Thomas Smith was baptised at St James’s Church, Campden, on 24 March 1895 and was the third son of George and Eliza Smith of Paul’s Pike. After leaving school he was employed as a farm labourer on Mr Keyte’s farm at Kingcombe, Campden.In January 1915 Tom and his cousin,

201 Squadron, Royal Air Force Fleming Newton was the second son of Isaac Newton MRCS, Senior Medical Officer at Tonbridge School and his wife Alice, who later lived at Broadlands, The Park, Cheltenham. He was educated at Tonbridge School between 1912 and 1917, where he was a member of the OTC and captain of school.

8th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment Wilfred Taylor was born in Cinderford in 1897, the eldest son of William, a coal miner, and Lucy Taylor of High Street, Cinderford. After leaving Double View Secondary School he was apprenticed to a grocer. He later moved to Hatfield in Hertfordshire to take up employment with the Star Tea Company.

D Company, 5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Sidney Sysum was born in Gloucester on 9 June 1895, one of twelve children, to Charles and Mary Sysum. After leaving school in 1909 he worked first as a marble polisher before joining the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Limited. Sidney was a keen rugby footballer and played

10th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment Edward Hampton Moss was born in Yokohama on 13 August 1878. He was the son of C D Moss, a member of the Diplomatic Corps, and Mrs E J Moss, who later lived at Sussex House, Pittville, Cheltenham. Edward attended Cheltenham College as a day boy between January 1893 and April