Swindon Road
Private George Albert James Blackmore of the 16th Royal Welsh Fusiliers killed in France on the 22nd April 1918.
Born in Cheltenham, the only son of Albert and Edith Blackmore of 3 Elmview Terrace, Swindon Road. Before enlisting he managed the Kings Head Hotel.
On the 21st April 1918 his battalion was part of the 113th Brigade whose objective was to secure observation into the Ancre Valley. They achieved the objective but suffered heavy losses and he was one of the soldiers who died.
Lieutenant George Fisher of the 24th Battalion (Victoria Rifles of Canada - C.E.F) died of wounds in England on the 20th December 1916, aged 33
Youngest son of Charles and Susan Fisher of Swindon Road. He emigrated to Canada in 1911 and volunteered for active service in Canada becoming a Sergeant in the Expeditionary force, he served in France for a year before being offered a commission. He was wounded in action on the Ancre river in November 1916 and evacuated to England, he later died of his wounds.
Able Seaman Herbert Spencer Rich of the Royal Navy (Submanrine G7) drowned in the North Sea on the 1st of November 1918, aged 25.
Seaman Rich of Harewood Cottage, Swindon Road served onboard submarine G7 which launched in March 1918. She was patrolling in the North Sea in 1918 and was officially declared lost on the 1st November 1918, later reports say that during a storm she was swept onto the rocks near Newbiggin.
Private John Bowen of the 1st Gloucestershire Regiment killed in France on the 1st July 1916.
Private Bowen of Nailsworth Terrace, Swindon Road was a reservist who was recalled at the outbreak of the war. He was wounded in the early days of the conflict during the retreat from Mons, but continued serving - he was killed by shellfire when his battalion was entrenched at Les Brebis in the Calonne sector.
Private Charles Hole of the 1st/15th London Regiment (Civil Service Rifles). Drowned at sea on 30th December 1915,
Son of Market Gardener William and Lucy Hole (of Huntscote, Swindon Road) he was a greengrocer before the war.
He enlisted in July 1917 and after training embarked for Egypt on the troopship Aragon. After arriving at Alexandria, they were unable to disembark and were ordered back out to sea. She was sunk by a submarine on the 30th December 1917, 610 lives were lost of the 2500 aboard her, Private Hole was one of the casualties.
Second Lieutenant Michael Hole of the 10th Battalion KRRC was killed in Belgium on the 19th September 1917.
Son of William and Lucy Hole and brother to Charles Hole.
The final tragedy for the family was the suicide of Mary Anne their sister. The death of both her brothers was too much for her and she drowned herself on the 21st of January 1918
Private Harry Denchfield of the 15th Royal Warwickshire Regiment killed in France on the 23rd May 1916.
Son of John and Francis of Louiseville Cottages, Swindon Road.He was drafted to France and was killed whilst raiding enemy trenches.
Private John Robert Brunsdon Page of the Labour Corps killed in France on the 3rd April 1918.
The son of Robert and Mary Page of the Regent House, Swindon Road.
He was serving in France in the Somme sector with an entrenching battalion at the time of the spring offensive of 1918 and he was killed.
Private Cyril James Wentworth of the 2nd/5th Gloucestershire Regiment, killed in action in France on the 28th April 1917, aged 28.
Son of James Wentworth of Daisy Nook, Swindon Road.
He went to serve in France with his unit in May 1916. In the winter of that year following the German retreat to the Hindenberg line, the 2nd/5th were constructing new trench lines in the Somme sector near Holnon. Whilst working on the Brown Line Private Wentworth was killed by an artillery shell.
Private George Reginald Wright of the 1st/7th Worcestershire Regiments killed in Belgium on the 25th August 1917.
Son of Timothy and Martha Wright of 1 Wolsely Villas, Swindon Road, it is likely he left Cheltenham prior to the war to work in the coalfields of South Wales.
He served with his unit in France and Flanders, but he was not killed in a major battle and is commemorated on the St Peters memorial