St. Gregory's Church World War 1 Memorial
Bentall, Chris2015
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Cheltenham : Privately, 2015
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Permission given to print off copy for St Gregory's Catholic History by Author.The following dates (*except for Gladwin and Hennessey) are taken from St Gregory's Parish Registers held at the Gloucester Record Office (GRO).Parishioners of St. Gregory the Great Cheltenham who Lost their lives inthe Great War 1914 -1918John Driscoll was born on June 7th 1884, baptised on Sunday June 22nd 1884 and confirmed in 1894.Edward McCormick and his wife Esther were witnesses at the wedding of Edmund Castleton and Mary B Power September 3rd 1914, the same month he enlisted. At their 1911 wedding the witnesses were Patrick Lynch and Mary Lousia (sic) Daisy Jackson and his father is named as William McCormick.Laurence 'Larry' Cummins married Mary C Holland in St Gregory's on January 1st 1916; a photograph of them is in the CCGG (January 8th 1916).Aloysius Rudman was baptised on January 1st 1892.Alfred Belcher was born on October 8th 1894 and not apparently baptised until February 15th 1908.George O'Hagan was born February 10th 1894 and baptised on February 18th 1894.Frederick Maher was born on January 6th 1894 and baptised on May 13th 1894.Francis Driscoll was born on April 4th 1895 and baptised on April 21st 1895.Leonard Clark was born on March 14th 1891, baptised on September 2nd 1894 and confirmed in 1903 with his two brothers.Joseph Martin was baptised on April 28th 1894; the original entry is lacking the month but as the previous entry is also April 28th 1894 and the next is not until May 25th so I assume April is the correct month.Re. Fred Smith, I only found a baptism for October 30th 1910 (he was born in 1880). His sisters Dorcas and Jessie were supposedly born in Cheltenham but I found no record of them in the parish registers.*Ralph Gladwin was born on October 4th 1885 and christened on November 1st in Watton. Further to a talk I gave to the St Gregory's Over 55 Club in early September 2013, feedback from two people in the audience suggested the family surname should be Fane-Gladwin.*Christopher Hennessey was baptised in St Pauls Parish on April 17th 1887, which almost certainly accounts for his name appearing on the memorial outside St Paul's Church, on which he is one of a group of four South Wales Borderers, including 2nd Lieutenant George Bunce killed in Gallipoli on May 8th 1915. Private James Johnson died in Belgium on the last day of July 1917 but it turns out that Lance Corporal Albert Dix was with the 2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment in France where he died from his wounds on August 18th 1918.Re. Cecil Delaney, his nephew Philip Delaney says he was baptised at St Gregory's but he and his siblings were sent to nearby St Peter's Church although the family went to St Gregory's for special occasions. Philip remembers attending commemorative events in the Promenade as a boy.
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63G940.467BEN
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English
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1591434