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The Gloucestershire Regiment can be traced back to 1694.
Battalions during the Great War.
- 1st Battalion
- 2nd Battalion
- 3rd (Reserve) Battalion
- 4th (City of Bristol) Battalion
- 2/4th (City of Bristol) Battalion
- 3/4th Battalion
- 5th Battalion
- 2/5th Battalion
- 3/5th Battalion
- 6th Battalion
- 2/6th Battalion
- 3/6th Battalion
- 17th Battalion
- 7th (Service) Battalion
- 8th (Service) Battalion
- 9th (Service) Battalion
- 10th (Service) Battalion
- 11th (Reserve) Battalion
- 12th (Service) Battalion (Bristol)
- 13th (Service) Battalion (Forest of Dean)(Pioneers)
- 14th (Service) Battalion (West of England)
- 15th (Reserve) Battalion
- 16th (Reserve) Battalion
- 18th (Service) Battalion
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Please note we currently have a large backlog of submitted material, our volunteers are working through this as quickly as possible and all names, stories and photos will be added to the site.
Those known to have served with The Gloucestershire Regiment during the Great War.
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- Pte. John Abbott (d.7th Jun 1917)
- Pte. Alfred William Bowen Read their Story.
- Capt. Harry Alfred Butt (d.8th Jun 1916) Read their Story.
- Pte. Harry Carpenter (d.8th Jun 1917) Read their Story.
- Pte. A. Clark (d.7th Jun 1917)
- George "Spoe" Fletcher Read their Story.
- Private Harold Hobson DCM - Distinguished Conduct Medal Read their Story.
- Pte. J. H. Millward (d.8th Jun 1917)
- Pte. Harry Lawson Morse (d.7th Jun 1917)
- Cpl. Harry Prentice Snell (d.16th Aug 1917) Read their Story.
- Pte. James Pailing Ward MM. (d.18th Apr 1918) Read their Story.
- Pte. Mark Witworth Ward (d.3rd Jul 1916) Read their Story.
- Pte. Thomas William White (d.13th May 1915)
If you have any names to add to this list, or any recollections or photos of those listed, please get in touch.
Pte. Alfred William Bowen Oxfordshire and Bucks Light Infantry
This man was my Father's oldest brother born abt 1900 all my Dad knows is that he served in the Ox and Bucks during the Great War and all he has is his Pocket Prayer Book "Active Service" 1914. My Father is 88yrs now and would love to know what campaignes my uncle would have been likely to have been involved in.
Capt. Harry Alfred Butt 14th btn. Gloucestershire Rgt (d.8th Jun 1916)
Harry Butt was the son of Rev. Canon George Holden Butt, from a letter I know that in May 1916 whilst in France he met up with his brother Lewis, who was serving with the Rifle Brigade. Unfortunately both were killed with in weeks and are laid to rest in Northern France.
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?
Pte. James Pailing Ward MM. 8th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment (d.18th Apr 1918)
James Paling Ward was born in Twyford, Leicestershire, son of George Paling Ward and Lydia Anne Ward. He is listed in the 1911 Tiddington Warwickshire census aged 16, living at home with his parents and employed as a Domestic Gardener. He enlisted at Birmingham and went to France with 8th battalion Gloucestershire Regiment on the 18th of July 1915. His award of the Military Medal for Bravery in the field was gazetted on 16th August 1917, having been notified in battalion special order of the day for 2nd July 1917. This was for his part during the Battle of Messines on 7th June 1917. The battalion war diary records:-Wytschaete Beek Onraet Wood
7th [June] Attack launched at 3.10 a.m. by 19th Division
8.10 am. Battalion attacked Black Line in front of Onraet Wood & took its objective. Patrol pushed out & line in front of Oostaverne Wood also held.
3.10.pm. Further attack was launched against village of Oostaverne and Odonto Trench. Battalion took its objective and consolidated position. The result of the day’s operations was highly successful and over two hundred German prisoners were taken.
Private J P Ward was killed on 18th April 1918 when 8th Battalion was retreating during the great German offensive of April 1918. On the 18th April the battalion was withdrawing from its trenches near Beaver Corner, arriving in a field near Wippenhoek siding about 2 miles east of Abeele.
James Pailing Ward is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the missing at the Ypres area of Belguim. And also on the war memorial at Tiddington Warwickshire.
His brother, Mark Whitworth Ward also served in 8th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. He was killed in action on 3rd July 1916, during the battle of the Somme.
Pte. Mark Witworth Ward 8th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment (d.3rd Jul 1916)
Mark Whitworth Ward was born in Melton Mowbray and enlisted at Stratford on Avon. He went to France with 8th Battalion on 18th July 1915. He was killed in action on 3rd July 1916, during the Battle of the Somme.At 03.15 the battalion took part in an assault on eastern end of the village of - the western end of which had been taken by other British troops the previous day. A German counter-attack drove 57th Brigade, including 8th Battalion out of the eastern end of the village again and furious fighting raged in the village for the rest of the day. 8th Battalion lost over 300 men in killed, wounded and missing that day.
Mark Whitworth Ward is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial to the missing at the Somme area of France. And also on the war memorial at Tiddington Warwickshire.
His brother James Pailing Ward also served with the 8th Gloucester Regiment and lost his life in April 1918.
Private Harold Hobson DCM - Distinguished Conduct Medal 8th Battalion Gloucester
DCM for distinguished conduct under fire, 18/07/1915 Served in France during WW I Served in the Home Guard during WW II
Pte. Harry Carpenter 8th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment (d.8th Jun 1917)
Harry Carpenter was born in 1893 in Medmemham, Berkshire and enlisted in the Ox & Bucks Light Infantry, no.14299. He transferred to Glosters and was killed on the 8th June 1917. Harry is listed on Menin Gate, he was a cousin of mine.
George "Spoe" Fletcher Gloucestershire Regiment
I wish to add to your Northwick Park page. My Grandfather, George Fletcher, originally from Chipping, Campden, served served in the Gloucesters during the Great War.He worked at Northwick Park before and during WW2. His chief occupation, I am told, was looking after the horses. He was a crack shot and used to help make ends meet in WW2 by a bit of poaching. He was a first class shot with a catapult and would kill rabbits and sell them on to the Americans at the Park. He would also lay bets on hitting small targets such as cigarette packets on window sills etc. Should anyone recall George "Spoe" Fletcher I would be very pleased to hear from them.
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