The Forest of Dean Section of the Gloucestershire regiment (General)

by downunder , Sunday, June 09, 2013, 16:48 (4187 days ago) @ Jefff

The Green caps and blazers are very traditional yes. I'm thinking of when they stopped the traditional cricket whites and used to play in bright colours. It just wasn't cricket any more for my grandad! If whites had been good enough for Bradman, than that said it all!

Talking of the Forest of Dean section of the Glosters was just my clumsy phrasing. I knew that one of the Londoners I've been researching joined the Glosters because he was married to a Bream girl. He was orphaned young so we think he joined the same regiment as her brother and cousins because of the family connections. I've been looking at
London regiments and then we got his daughter's birth certificate and it was the Glosters after all. So I was interested to know which battalion he was most likely to have served in. Also if that battalion would have served at Dunkirk.

I'll certainly let you know how I get on and what I find out.

Thanks for all your help. Much appreciated. You've already helped answer some of our questions and that's great.