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VAD Olga Gjers
Voluntary Aid Detachment Yorks 42
from:Busby Hall, Northallerton
Olga Gjers, born in 1895, lived at Busby Hall, a country house near Stokesley and was the daughter of Mrs Ann Gjers, Vice President of the North Riding branch of the British Red Cross Society and also Commandant of the Auxiliary Hospital at The Manor House in Stokesley, where Olga worked as a member of Yorks 42 Voluntary Aid Detachment. Her father Lawrence was JP for Middlesbrough and the North Riding of Yorkshire, Colonel and Commandant of the North Riding National Reserve, a member of the Iron and Steel Institute, and Vice President of the Cleveland Institute of Engineers. Her brother also named Lawrence served with the 2nd Seaforth Highlanders and lost his life at Passchendaele.
Pte. George Henry Gladden
British Army 15th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Bethnal Green, London
George Gladden went into battle in Mametz Wood in May 1916 with the 1st London Welsh. His fellow soldier, Private F. Laydon wrote to George's wife describing how George had been shot in the neck, the leg and the shoulder. He had been left in a hollow in the ground and his companions were unable to return for him, but other men came back later in the day and reported that " the Germans had taken in our wounded with the utmost care and attention....The gentleness was wonderful and we ourselves could not have cared for them more tenderly."
George returned to England several months later. His wife had eventually discovered that he was in a prisoner of war camp in Nurnberg and had written to him regularly until he came home. George reported that he had been left for dead in the German mortuary, but that a German mortuary attendant had realised he was still alive and had called for assistance. George was attended by a German surgeon, who had trained in London and so spoke good English. The surgeon stitched up all his wounds and George lived to run a very successful engineering parts business and eventually died in 1972.
L/Sjt. Percy G. A. G. Gladman MM.
British Army 14th Btn. Welsh Regiment
from:London
Spr. Arthur Charles George Gladwin
British Army 20th Light Railway Company Royal Engineers
from:Derby
(d.4th March 1917)
Arthur Gladwin was buried where he fell.
Pte. Robert Harold Gladwin
British Army 4th Battalion Middlesex Regiment
from:Willesden, London
(d.30th Sep 1915)
Robert Harold Gladwin served with the 4th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. He died on 30th September 1915.
Stephen Gladwin
British Army
Rifleman William Gladwin
British Army 11th Btn Rifle Brigade
(d.3rd Sep 1916)
My Great uncle killed in WW1. I would be interested in any history published on the 11th (Service) Bn
Rflmn. William Gladwin
British Army A Coy, 11th Btn. Rifle Brigade
from:Alcester, Warwicks
(d.3 Sept 1916)
William was KIA Battle of Guillemont
Pte. William Gladwin
British Army 9th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers
from:Newtown, Ledbury
(d.22nd March 1918)
Billy Gladwin was the eldest son of Corporal W Gladwin RE, who was himself at the front for three and a hald years. Billy enlisted, then underage, and saw 10 months service with the Herefordshire Regiment in Egypt but was sent home when his age was discovered. He was 19 years old in January 1918 and went to France in February being drafted into Royal Welsh Fusiliers and died in March.
2Lt. Frederick William Milroy "Roy" Gladwyn
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Highlanders
My grandfather Roy Gladwyn enlisted on 17th of August 1916 at the age of 18 as a private and was posted to 13th Suffolk Regiment. In December he was accepted into 5th Officer Cadet School at Trinity College Cambridge. He was commissioned on 9th May 1917 and 10 days later arrived at the 3rd Black Watch's training centre at Nigg in Ross-shire.
He joined 9th Black Watch on 15th of September, then at Stirling Camp near Arras and as a platoon commander a week later went into the line south of the River Scarpe east of Arras. The battalion spent some time north of the Scarpe river, but by March 1918 were back in the line south of the Scarpe near Monchy le Preux and were in the front line when the Germans launched operation Mars early on the morning of 28 March, which he survived.
With the reorganisation of the Army in May 1918, which resulted in 9/Black Watch amalgamating with 4/5th Black Watch, my grandfather transferred to 6th Black Watch where he was briefly in the front line at Oppy, north-east of Arras.
In July the battalion was moved to the Champagne country just north of Epernay to take part in an Anglo-French counter attack to push the Germans back from the Marne salient gained by their attack in May and to alleviate the risk to Paris. He was wounded on 28th of July 1918 in the final attack (on Chambrecy) made by the 6th Black Watch in this campaign and for which the battalion was awarded the Croix de Guerre. He recovered and in June 1919 was attached to 12th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders guarding GHQ (now the modern Askeri Military museum) Army of the Black Sea in Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey. He was demobbed on 1st of April 1920.
2nd Lieutenant Frederick William Milroy Gladwyn 6 & 9/Black Watch
A/Cpl Michael John Glancy MM
British Army 17th Coy Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
from:Dublin
(d.16th Mar 1916)
www.cwgc.org Sanctuary Wood Cemetery Belgium
L/Sgt. Charles Samuel Glasby
British Army 18th (London Irish Rifles) Btn. London Regiment
from:49 Cold Bath Road, Harrogate
(d.23rd May 1916)
Charles Glasby joined as a Private in the London Irish Rifles. He was one of 400 that joined from Messrs Cooks Limited, the big wholesale house in St Paul's Churchyard, London
Pte Edgar Glasby
British Army 7th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment
(d.2nd May 1918)
Edgar Glasby lost his life on the 2nd of May 1918, he is buried in Etaples Military Cemetery. Grave Ref. LXVII A.
Pte. Ralph Glasgow
British Army 10th Bn. Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
from:Glasgow
(d.14th July 1916)
Pte. Robert Glasgow
Royal Dublin Fusiliers 2nd Btn.
from:5 Douglas Park, Bellshill
(d.4th November 1916)
My great grandfather, Robert Glasgow, had been in France for almost a year before being wounded at the Battle of the Somme when he was taken to a field hospital and later transferred to a military hospital in Rouen where he succumbed to his wounds on Saturday 4th of November 1916, age 33 leaving a young widow and 3 children. He is buried in St. Server Cemetery Extension, Rouen in France.
WO1 (Cdr.) Horace Henry Glasock VC.
South African Army Transports and Remounts South African Services Corps
from:Johannesburg
(d.20th Oct 1916)
Conductor* Horace Henry Glasock VC served with Transports and Remounts in the South African Service Corps during WW1 and died on the 20th October 1916 aged 36. He is buried in Cape Town (Maitland) Cemetery in South Africa. He was awarded the Victoria Cross during the Boer War, when he was 19 years old, and a driver in 'Q' Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, British Army.
Glasock later settled in South Africa and served as a Conductor in the South African Service Corps. Glasock is buried at Maitland Road Cemetery 4, Cape Town, South Africa. He was the son of Henry Glasock; husband of M. L. Glasock, of 149, Sheffield St., Kenilworth, Johannesburg. Born in London, England.
* Conductor (Cdr) is an appointment held by a few selected warrant officers class 1 in the Royal Logistic Corps and is the most senior appointment that can be held by a warrant officer in the British Army.
Dvr. Cecil Gilbert Glass
South African Army MT Coy Service Corps
(d.17th October 1918)
Driver Glass was 27 and is buried in the Engcobo Cemetery, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Sto. David Kininment Glass
Royal Navy Reserve HMS Pembroke
from:98 Walter, Street, Jarrow
(d.11th Jul 1915)
David Glass was born 1868 in Jarrow and died on 11 July 1915 aged 43 (though his real age was 46) whilst serving at HMS Pembroke, in Medway. He is buried in Jarrow Cemetery. He was son of late George and Elisa Glass and husband of Rachel Glass (nee Breeds) of 98 Walter Street, Jarrow.
Cpl. Peter Fowler Glass
British Army 9th Battalion Cameronians
from:Edinburgh
(d.25th Jul 1918)
My grandfather Peter Glass, served in France and Belgium in WW1. He was killed between Meteron and Balloil and is buried in Meteron war cemetery. He left behind a wife Gina and a son Stuart (my father), his daughter Helen died days after her father of flu. He was a printer before the war working for Harmsworthy's. I have various letters and sketches he did but little of his actual history.
William Glass
Royal Army Medical Corps 2nd Highland Field Ambulance
William Glass was born on the 7th of December 1891 in Broughty Ferry, Forfar, Scotland, the son of William Glass and Eliza Ritchie. He married Maggie Nora Webster on 29th of December 1916 in Aberdeen, Scotland. At the time of his marriage, William was serving as a mechanical engineer in the 2nd Highland Field Ambulance and living in Springburn, Glasgow, Scotland. William and his wife had three sons and often vacationed at the seaside in Aberdeen during the 1920s.
2nd Lt. William Glass
British Army 6th Btn. Black Watch
from:Belfast
(d.23rd April 1917)
William Glass was born in Belfast and worked for Barker & Dobson, the confectionery firm. He married Harriet Phoebe Sheeran (1886-1960. They lived in Glengormley, Belfast, where their four sons were born.
He was one of the old Scotch Volunteers and was one of those instrumental in forming groups of Volunteers for the 6th Battalion Black Watch Territorial Force, in which he served as a private and non-commissioned officer. He took a keen interest in welfare of boys and was identified with the Boys Brigade, serving with McClure St Sabbath School of Fitzroy Avenue Church. He organised a company of the B.B. at Balmoral Industrial School. He was one of the original Y.C.V. members and on the formation of the U.V.F. he acted as honorary drill instructor for several city companies.
With the outbreak of war in 1914, William was commissioned into the Black Watch regiment and stationed in the East of Scotland. In 1916 he received his commission and proceeded to France. Lieutenant Glass was killed in action on 23rd April 1917 near Souchez, Pas de Calais and lies buried in the Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery at Arras in Northern France. In a letter from his colonel it was stated that he fell while leading his men into action. He died aged 36.
War diary extract: Monday, 23rd April 1917. A Black Monday. The Brigade was to jump off astride the Cambrai Road which ran diagonally across our front. Scots on left, Argylls on right with a creeping barrage. An echelon type of attack. Up at 4.30 to see the strafe (from Bn. H.Q. about 800 yards behind the front line). Loud and heavy firing. Noticed loud and terribly ominous, quick and heavy retaliation on to our front line - and feared the worst. Then the usual rumours began. Ferguson of 'A' Coy. back wounded and with bad news. C.O. would not let me go forward to see what was happening. He allowed Muirhead to go instead. Muirhead got a very bad time of it. Our attack was a failure. The barrage was too fast and of the wrong nature and our men were mown down by guns and by M.G. fire. All the officers except Tobermory, A.G.Cameron and G.H.Mitchell were either killed or wounded.
Gnr. David Glassford
British Army Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Glasgow
David Glassford was my grandmother's uncle. I have two postcards of him in the trenches December 1916.
He married in 1918,his marriage cert states that he was a gunner in the RGA and still in service.
The only David Glassford that fits in the medal cards has regimental number 69321.
Pte. Daniel Glassman
British Army 1st Btn. Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry
from:Hackney, London
(d.15th Jun 1915)
My great-uncle Daniel Glassman was killed on the 15th of June 1915, aged 19 and is buried in Ypres Cemetery (The Bluff). As I will be coming to Belgium at the beginning of June to see his grave, I am trying to establish where he was killed so I can also visit the battleground. My interest is not only was he family but I was named after him. If you have any information where he was killed that day, I would be very much obliged.
Off.Stwd. William E. Glasson
Royal Navy HMS Bergamot
(d.13th Aug 1917)
Sgt. Thomas Harold Glaves
British Army 6th Battalion Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Owlerton, Yorkshire
(d.11th Sep 1916)
Pte. Joe Gleaden
British Army Army Cyclists Corp
from:Barnsley
My grandfather, Joe Gleaden, was born in what was then known as New Scarboro' near Barnsley in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Having enlisted with the East Yorkshire Regiment, and the then Army Cyclist Corp, he was sent to France on 14 July 1915.
Although I can see from his medal record that he was awarded the Victory Medal and the Star, as well as the Silver War Badge following his discharge through injury in December 1918, this tells me nothing of what he and his comrades in the Cyclists Corp must have endured in France and on the Somme in particular.
Having survived the war, Joe worked as a miner in Darfield Main Colliery for many years. He was a very quiet man who really never talked about his experiences during WWI. Sadly, Joe died in early 1953 without having ever passed on to his family his memories.
His great-grandson, Benjamin Hutchinson Kurczij (12 years old) who is so proud of his ancestors who served in WWI will mention Joe at the commemorative service at The Beacon School Amersham on Monday 11 November to ensure that Joe's memory lives on.
Sgt. George E. Gleadow
British Army 1st Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment
(d.6th Apr 1917)
Sgt. George Gleadow served with the West Yorkshire Regiment 1st Battalion. He was executed for desertion on 06th April 1917 and is buried in the Berlencourt Communal Cemetery in Pas-de-Calais, France.
Pte. Harold "Sammy" Gledhill
British Army 23rd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Ashington, Northumberland
Harold Gledhill was my grandfather, and in 1968 I sat down with him and a tape recorder and said "tell me about your life." Part of what he told me was about his time with the 23rd Northumberland Fusiliers in Flanders, Le Cateau, Arras, Passchendaele, Vimy Ridge, and Albert. He was wounded at Albert, but survived and lived to the age of 92.
Pte. Herbert Gledhill
British Army 12th Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:1 Coal Pit Lane Carlinghow, Batley, West Yorkshire.
Private Herbert Gledhill served with the 2/5th and 12th Battalions KingĆ¢ā‚¬ā„¢s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
Pte. John Edward Gledhill
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Scots Fusiliers
from:Leeds
(d.26th Sept 1917)
My Great Uncle, John Gledhill perished at Polygon Wood on the 26th Sept 1917 during the 3rd battle of Ypres. He is mentioned in the War records as killed in action; however his body was never found and he is remembered at Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium. What is unusual is that my mother's family never knew of his existence. It was as if he had never been born. He was the eldest of 4 Gledhill brothers that went to war, and he was the only one that never returned. I just feel that like many other soldiers who gave their lives, John Edward Gledhill, should not be forgotten.
If anyone knows any further information about John Edward Gledhill, I would like to hear from them.
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