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4th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment
4th (City of Bristol) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment were a unit of the Territorial Force which had its HQ in Queen's Road, Clifton, Bristol. A to E Companies were based in Clifton, F Coy in St George's and G and H Companies in Bristol. They served with the Gloucester and Worcester Brigade, South Midland Division. They had just departed for their annual summer camp when war broke out in August 1914 and they were at once recalled. They mobilised for war service on 5 August 1914 and moved to Swindon, then to Maldon in Essex in the second week of August to concentrate with the Division and commence training. They proceeded to France from Folkestone, landing at Bologne on the 30th of March 1915 The Division concentrated near Cassel. On the 15th of May 1915 the formation was renamed 144th Brigade, 48th (South Midland) Division. In 1916 they were in action in the Battle of the Somme, suffering hevy casualties on the 1st of July in assaulting the Quadrilateral (Heidenkopf). They were also in action at The Battle of Bazentin Ridge, capturing Ovillers, The Battle of Pozieres Ridge, The Battle of the Ancre Heights and The Battle of the Ancre. In 1917 the Division occupied Peronne during the The German Retreat to the Hindenburg Line and were in action in the Third Battles of Ypres. On the 21st of November 1917 they entrained for Italy. In 1918 they were involved in The fighting on the Asiago Plateau and The Battle of the Vittoria Veneto in the Val d'Assa area. At the Armistice the Division had withdrawn and was at Granezza. Demobilisation began in early 1919.
7th Sep 1914 Training
8th Sep 1914 Inspection
14th Sep 1914 Course
17th Apr 1915 Reliefs 
26th Apr 1915 Reliefs
30th Apr 1915 Relief
11th May 1915 Relief Complete
19th May 1915 Reliefs
27th May 1915 Relief
4th Jun 1915 Reliefs
10th Jun 1915 Reliefs
23rd Jun 1915 Reliefs
8th Jul 1915 Kitchener's Visit
13th Jul 1915 Gloucesters & Worcesters on the march
15th Jul 1915 Trench digging by night
17th Jul 1915 Orders to move received by 8th Worcesters
27 Jul 1915 Front Line Inspected
27 Jul 1915 Front Line Inspected
1st Aug 1915 Rather a nice Souvenir
15th Aug 1915 Working Parties
29th Aug 1915 Working Parties
3rd Sep 1915 Snipers Active
5th Sep 1915 In the Trenches
16th Oct 1915 The Derby Scheme
4th Nov 1915 In the Trenches
1st Dec 1915 Derby Scheme Armlets
6th Dec 1915 Flooded Trenches
11th Sep 1915 Last day of Derby Scheme Recruitment
10th Jan 1916 Group System Reopens
9th February 1916 Call Ups
29th February 1916 Reliefs
19th Jul 1916 Gas
3rd Sep 1916 Recce
5th Sep 1916 Reliefs
14th October 1916 Draft of 42 O.R.
11th Jan 1916 Football Tournament
30th Dec 1916 Reliefs
31st Dec 1916 Under Shellfire
1st July 1917 Relieved the 4th Gloucesters in the Louverval sector.
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Pte. Charles Warren 1/4th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment (d.15th Dec 1917) Charles Warren was 33 when he died and is buried in the Cerea Communal Cemetery in Italy.
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Pte. William Button 1/4th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment (d.23rd Oct 1917) William Button served with the 4th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment.
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Pte. Arthur James Baldwin 1st/4th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment (d.12th Nov 1918) Arthur Baldwin was born in Bedminster, Somerset in 1895. He was the son of Frederick Baldwin and Fanny (nee Wathen). He worked as a printer prior to the war. His mother died in 1914 and his father remarried in 1917 to Sophia Bush. Arthur is buried in Italy at Montecchio Precalcino Communal Cemetery Extension.
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Sgt Bernard Blackmore 1st/4th Glos. Regiment Prior to WW1 Bernard served in the 2nd. (Wessex) Field Company Royal Engineers but at the outbreak of the Great War he enlisted on 1st. September 1914 in Bristol as 2432 Private, 1st/4th Btn. Glos. Regiment. By 1915 he had attained the rank of 200538 Sergeant in the same Battalion. He was seriously wounded on 22nd August 1916 during the assault on the Leipzig Redoubt. His injuries were so serious that he never returned to active service.
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Pte Charles William Blackwell MM. 1st Btn. Gloucester Regiment My dad Charles Blackwell was just sixteen when he enlisted, lying about his age like so many others. He was in the 1/4th battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment. He was injured and sent to recover and when he returned he was in the 1st Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment and his service number was 201227.
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