Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment 8th Battalion

  Name Edgar Appleby Arnold Birth Place Hull, 1892. Son of Alfred and Betsy Arnold, of 41, Islington Rd., Southville, Bristol. Death Date 20 Sep 1917 Death Place Aeroplane Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium Enlistment Place Bristol Rank Sergeant Regiment Gloucestershire Regiment Battalion 8th Service Battalion Regimental Nu […]

BORN HULL 14/11/1894. SON OF CHRISTINA & THE LATE JOHN PATTISON, OF 2 LORRAINE STREET, STONEFERRY. ENLISTED HULL 26/01/1916. SERVED IN IRELAND IN APRIL 1916. POSTED TO FRANCE SEPTEMBER 1916, WHERE HE WAS WOUNDED AND INVALIDED TO ENGLAND. HE ACCIDENTALLY DROWNED IN THE BATHURST BASIN, BRISTOL, ON 7/02/1918. HE WAS EXPECTING TO BE DISC […]

BORN BRISTOL 1880. SON OF JOHN COLSTON RICHER (1841-1888) & BRIDGET RICHER. BOARDED AT THIS 1911 CENSUS ADDRESS. DOCK LABOURER. ENLISTED IN HULL. POSTED TO THE 8TH GLOUCESTERSHIRE REGIMENT. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 18/07/1915. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 18/11/1915. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER, BRIDGET ADAMS AND SISTER, MARY.

Born Barton-upon-Humber, 1898. Son of George and Annie Robinson, of 1, South View, St Georges Road, Hull (War Pension Address). Enlisted at Barton-upon-Humber. Formerly 1793, Lincolnshire Regiment. Transferred to the 8th Gloucestershire Regiment. Killed in action, on 18/11/1916, aged 18. Commemorated on the Thiepval memorial, France. H […]

BORN BARTON 1898. YOUNGEST SON OF MR G ROBINSON (FORMERLY OF BARTON) ABOVE ADDRESS. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 8TH FEBRUARY 1917 WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *

BORN NEW HOLLAND, LINCS, 1895. ENLISTED HULL. SON OF GEORGE PERCY & ANN ELLEN THORNDYKE. HE IS BURIED AT STE. MARIE CEMETERY, LE HAVRE, SEINE-MARITIME, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, "I HEARD THE VOICE OF JESUS SAY COME UNTO ME AND REST"