Recruiting in Forest in WW1 (General)

by kcasson , Wednesday, November 02, 2011, 19:18 (4776 days ago) @ Roger Griffiths

Apologies this is not exactly on topic.

But my great great grandfather (George Thomas HYETT b. 1872 Churcham) joined up with his horse and (I believe) was one of the first to do so in the area. He lived in Over at the time and my grandfather has a picture of him going to war with his horse.

Also, the link below is my great grandfather's memories of world war 1 (George Randall HYETT b. 1897 Highnam). He also lived in Highnam/Over at the start of the war. Thought this might be of interest.

http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/document/9603/8468

(It states he was part of the Royal Kent Artillery this was after he was invalided out of the 11th Battalion Gloucestershire regiment - it just proves that the 'local regiments' were not always local!).