Autumn 1916 - Gloucestershire Regiment (General)

by JSannwald , Sunday, November 26, 2006, 01:59 (6573 days ago) @ slowhands

Remembering those who lost their lives in the Somme ; I have some details of my grandfather's brother( half- brother)who lost his life on 0n the 20th August fighting with the Glos' Ist Btn

Name: ADAMS
Initials: C L
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Gloucestershire Regiment
Unit Text: 1st Bn.
Date of Death: 20/08/1916
Service No: 23137
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: XI. A. 7.
Cemetery: CATERPILLAR VALLEY CEMETERY, LONGUEVAL

Also his brother James died in 1915 in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey
Name: ADAMS, JAMES
Initials: J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Worcestershire Regiment
Unit Text: 9th Bn.
Date of Death: 10/08/1915
Service No: 18693
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 104 to 113.
Memorial: HELLES MEMORIAL

Have no other details other than census returns for 1901 gives their ages as James 9 & Charles 8 living in Viney Woodside, father an engine driver at the colliery. At the time of the first world war may have been living in Soudley area , miners.

Were the Glos and Worcs regiments closely linked?

I do not know when they joined up but as men were lost I presume battalions were reformed.