Malvern Street
Corporal Frank Jones of the 3rd Grenadier Guards– died 14th September 1916 age 26.
Born in Cheltenham son of Frank and Ellen Jones of 15 Malvern St. He served in France and Flanders and was killed at the battle of Flers-Courcelette. He left a widow and child. His younger brother Sapper William Frank Jones served with the 113th Coy Royal Engineers.
Private Henry Rumbold of the 10th Gloucestershire Regiment killed in France on the 25th September 1915.
Private Rumbold of 2 Malvern Street was born in Longborough.
He was killed on the first day of the Battle of Loos.
Private Walter John Purveur of the 2nd and 4th Hampshire Regiment, killed in France on 4th November 1918.
He left behind his sister at 10 Malvern Street. He served in France during the final advance of 1918. He was killed at the Battle of the River Sambre a week before the Armistice.
Worcester Street
Private Edward William Ford of the 2nd Gloucestershire Regiment killed in Belgium on the 13th of May 1915.
Son of Anne Ford of 10 Worcester Street.
Having enlisted in 1911 he was stationed in Tientsin, China when war was declared. The 2nd Gloucesters took part in actions against the German Enclave in Tsingtau they sailed to England. He took part in the 2nd Battle of Ypres where he was killed in action.
Private Harry G Tanner of the 2nd South Wales Borderers died in France on the 28th April 1916, aged 23.
Son of Charles and Julia Tanner of 16 Worcester Street.
His unit arrived on the Western Front in March 1916. In the April they moved to Mailly Maillet, a party from the battalion raided the German trenches in the Hawthorn Redoubt and it is possible he was killed during this raid.
Private Frederick James Walton of the 2nd Worcestershire Regiment killed in France on the 20th August 1916, aged 19.
The son of James and Mary Ann Walton of 50 Worcester Street, before enlisting he was employed by the Echo.
He served with his regiment in France and Flanders and was wounded in the neck in December 1915. He returned to the front and was part of the Somme offensive in 1916. His unit was due to be involved in an attack on the 20th August, alongside the Glasgow Highlanders, but due to mistakes and delays they were late to the assembly point and on arrival lost 18 men including private Walton.
Private George Albert Sidney Godwin died in England on the 26th of March 1918, aged 33.
Son of Thomas and Ann Godwin of 39 Worcester Street, had moved to Porth before enlisting. In March 1918 he was visiting his family in Cheltenham, in the early hours of the 26th March his sister Agnes ran to find the local constable and told him her brother had stabbed himself. The constable found that George had fallen upon his own bayonet and it was embedded in his chest. He was dead on arrival at the hospital