Capt Denys Keppel Garnier, 2nd Bn, Gloucs Regt

Captain Denys Keppel Garnier of the 2nd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment died of wounds on the 7th December 1916. He was 26 years old, the son of Caroline Henrietta Garnier of Chawton Conage, Alton, Hamshire, and the late Russell Montagu Garnier. He is buried in Struma Military Cemetery in Greece.

Captain Garnier was gazetted captain in the supplement to the London Gazette dated 18th October 1915. His medal index card notes that he arrived overseas in December 1914

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Officers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

2528 L/Cpl Alfred W G Enoch MM, 1/5th Bn, Gloucs Regt

2528 Lance-Corporal Alfred William George Enoch MM of the 1/5th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, was killed in action on the 21st July 1916. He was born in Cheltenham and enlisted there in August 1914. He arrived in France on the 29th March 1915 and was lost his life during the bitter Somme battles of July 1916.

Alfred was 24 years old when he died, the son of William C and Constance F Enoch of Camden Cottage, Croft Street, Cheltenham. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry (MIC)
Soldiers Died in The Great War
Army Service Numbers
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

2543 Cpl Harry Oswald Mordy, 1/4th Bn, Gloucs Regt

2543 Corporal Harry Oswald Mordy of the 1/4th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, was killed in action on the 11th December 1916. He was a Bristol man, born and bred, and so the 1/4th (City of Bristol) Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment must have been an obvious choice for him.

Harry's number dates to early September 1914 and he enlisted in Bristol. After a short period of training he was sent overseas, arriving in France on 31st March 1915.

No service record appears to survive for Harry Mordy, but a quick glance at the birth registers shows that his birth was registered in Bedminster district, Somerset in the June quarter of 1895. That in turn tells us that Harry was 21 years old at the time of his death. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial on the Somme.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (MIC, Free BMD)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War

28664 Pte Ivor Francis Gordon Rogers, 2nd Bn, Gloucs Regt

28664 Private Ivor Francis Gordon Rogers of the 2nd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment, was killed in action on the 6th December 1916, one of 154 soldiers to die on this date. He was the son of Walter William and Ellen Rogers, of Selsley, Stroud, Gloucestershire and was 20 years old when he died.

Ivor Rogers has no known grave and is commemorated on the Doiran Memorial in Greece.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War

3363 Pte Eric Raymond Cornall, 1/4th Gloucestershire Regiment

3363 Pte Eric Raymond Cornall of the 1/4th Gloucestershire Regiment was killed on this day, 17th July, in 1916. The 1/4th (City of Bristol) Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment, was a Territorial Force battalion, and Eric's number indicates that he must have joined it on about the 10th or 11th November 1914. His medal index card (MIC) adds the initials T. R. after his number, presumably standing for 'Territorial'.

According to his MIC, Eric landed in France on 31st March 1915, having presumably been turned from a raw recruit into a Gloucestershire Regiment infantryman in under five months.

Soldiers Died in the Great War does not note a place of birth, but it gives his place of residence as Sheffield, and his place of enlistment as Bristol. There is an Eric Raymond Cornall birth registered in London in the March quarter of 1893 which, if it's the same man - as seems likely - would have made Eric 23 years old when he was killed.

Eric Cornall has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval memorial in France.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (BMD, MIC)
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in the Great War