World War I (General)

by mcowan , Saturday, March 31, 2018, 09:26 (2422 days ago)

Private 204073 Gilbert James Wooles 2/5th Battalion (Territorial) Gloucestershire Regiment KIA Sunday, 31st March, 1918. Buried Ham British Cemetery, Muille Gillette, grave number 4 plot 2 row D. He was originally buried in a smaller cemetery and then reinterred in Ham.

Gilbert James Wooles was born in 1885 at the Greyhound Inn, Lydney to Allen and Ann Wooles. He was a plasterer upon his marriage to Ada Agnes Jones whose father was the Innkeeper of the Rifleman's Arms, Lydney. Gilbert then became Landlord before entering the War. He had one child.

We will remember them.