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5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment
5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment were a unit of the Territorial Force with their HQ at The Barracks, Gloucester. A and B Companies were based in Gloucester, C Coy in Stroud and Cirencester, D Coy in Tewkesbury, Forthampton and Kemberton, E and F Coy were based in Cheltenham, G Coy in Dursley and Wotton under Edge while H Coy drew from Campden, Blockley, Willersey, Shipston-on-Stour, Moreton-in-the-Marsh, Mickleton and Stowe-on-the-Wold. They had just departed for their annual summer camp when war broke out in August 1914 and they were at once recalled. They mobilised for war service on the 5th of August 1914 taking up station on the Isle of Wight, soon moving to Swindon, then to Maldon in Essex in the second week of August to concentrate with the Division and commence training. They proceeded to France from Folkestone, landing at Bologne on the 30th of March 1915 The Division concentrated near Cassel. On the 15th of May 1915 the formation was renamed 145th Brigade, 48th (South Midland) Division. In 1916 they were in action in the Battle of the Somme. In 1917 the Division occupied Peronne during the The German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line and were in action in the Third Battles of Ypres. On the 21st of November 1917 they entrained for Italy. In 1918 they were involved in The fighting on the Asiago Plateau. On the 11th of September they left the Division and returned to France to join 75th Brigade, 25th Division fought in the Final Advance in Picardy.
4th Apr 1915 On the March
17th Apr 1915 Reliefs 
24th Apr 1915 Quiet
5th Jun 1915 5th Gloucesters As Happy as Schoolboys.
13th Aug 1915 Reliefs
18th Oct 1916 Reliefs
20th Nov 1916 Reliefs Completed
26th Sep 1918 106th Field Coy on the move
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Those known to have served with5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment during the Great War 1914-1918. - Ames Henry Richard Thomas. Pte.
- Davies David. Pte. (d.5th Oct 1917)
- Hartley John George. Pte. (d.3rd May 1918)
- Langley R.. L/Sgt. (d.15th July 1918)
- Lapworth Joseph. Pte (d.8th March 1919)
- Pearce William. L/Cpl. (d.26th April 1917)
- Snell Harry Prentice. Cpl. (d.16th Aug 1917)
- Sweeting George William. Pte. (d.1st Nov 1918)
- Tranter Henry Isaac. Pte. (d.28th Aug1916)
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L/Cpl. William Pearce 1st/5th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment (d.26th April 1917) William Pearce died on the 26th of April 1917 and is buried in the Unicorn Cemetery in France.
He was the son of Benjamin Pearce from Winford, Somerset
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Pte Joseph Lapworth 5th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment (d.8th March 1919) Joseph Lapworth died of his wounds on 8th March 1919. He was sent to Cork Hospital in Ireland shortly before his death.
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Pte. David Davies 1/5th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment (d.5th Oct 1917) David Davies was born around 1886 and married Ethel Davies (nee Durrans) at St Peter's Church in Liverpool in 1908.
A Bricklayer by trade. He had 4 sons who were all under 10 when he died.
He is commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial.
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L/Sgt. R. Langley 1st/5th Bn. Gloucestershire Regiment (d.15th July 1918) Lance Serjeant Langley is buried in the Egna Communal Cemetery in Italy.
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Pte. George William Sweeting 2/5th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment (d.1st Nov 1918) George Sweeting is my great uncle. When I was a child of five years old, I would look at this photo of a man in uniform. Many years later I asked my grandmother who he was. She said he was her brother who had died in the Great War, he was only 23 years old.
It was many years later when I decided I needed to find him. I searched and found him in France in the Cross Roads Cemetery, Fontaine-au-Bois, with the inscription `Abide with me'.
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Pte. John George Hartley 1/5th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment (d.3rd May 1918) John Hartley died of wounds on 3rd May 1918, aged 37, He is buried in the Barenthal Military Cemetery Asiago, Italy.
He was the son of Mary and Joseph Hartley of Burnley and the husband of Alice Hartley of 28 Barbon Street, Burnley.
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Pte. Henry Isaac "Ike" Tranter 1/5th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment (d.28th Aug1916) Henry Isaac Tranter was born in June 1897 at Stockend Harescombe, Haresfield, Gloucestershire, younger brother of Joseph. He enlisted Gloucester in the 1/5th Gloucestershire Regiment as a Stretcher bearer. Henry died of wounds on the 28th of August 1916 aged 21, at the Battle of the Somme, he is buried in Blighty Valley Cemetery Authuile Wood nr Albert France grave I.D.18
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Cpl. Harry Prentice Snell 1/5th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment (d.16th Aug 1917) My uncle Harry Prentice Snell served with the Suffolk Reg (Territorials) and the the Gloucestershire Regiment. At 82 years of age I am completing my Family History and have already contacted the Gloucestershire Regiment and obtained from them a report covering the action in Ypres, Belgium also the aftermath resulting in the death of Uncle Harry. Having paid a visit to Ypres in September last and honoured his passing at the Commonwealth Memorial at Tyne Cot, Zonnebeke, West Vlaaderen, Belgium I am wondering if anyone may have any other information about him and maybe a photograph?
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