Month: May 2018

  • Cheltonian Victoria Cross Recipients

    Paving stones are to be installed to mark the 100th anniversaries of Cheltenham’s First World War Victoria Cross heroes. Three men from the borough who received the award will have commemorative stones placed at the war memorial outside the Municipal Offices.

  • Lt Col Richard Annesley West VC

    Richard Annesley West was born at 1 Oxford Street, Cheltenham on 26th September 1878. He was married to comedy actress Maude Aston (real name Cushing, aunt of the actor Peter Cushing) who he met in South Africa after joining the Army to serve in the Boer war. During WW1 West earned a number of medals for…

  • Captain Arthur Forbes Gordon Kilby VC

    Arthur Kilby was my maternal grandmother’s first cousin. Laura Herbert nee Kilby was also born in 1879 at East Hayes, Pitville Circus Road, Cheltenham. She was close to Arthur Kilby and had spent some of her childhood in the same household as he did. Capt Kilby gave my mother a copy of  “At the back…

  • Captain Anketell Moutray Read VC

    Captain Anketell Moutray Read was born in Beaumont House, 56 Shurdington Road, Leckhampton on the 27th October,1884. He rejoined the Northampton Regiment and was shipped to France in 1914. He was killed on the opening day of the battle of Loos, 25th September, 1915, and was subsequently awarded a posthumous VC.

  • War Memorials of Cheltenham and Our Twinned Towns

    An audio visual presentation was created for Cheltenham Borough Council by Cheltenham Camera Club to commemorate World War One with images from Cheltenham, Annecy, Goettingen and Cheltenham, Pennsylvania. Delegations from Goettingen and Annecy attended the launch of the film, and also a centenary concert at the town hall. 

  • Cheltenham’s Wooden Trench Crosses

    This Article first appeared in Our Town the newsletter of Cheltenham Civic Society by Freddie Gick Visitors to Bouncers Lane cemetery pass close by a group of modest crosses just inside the entrance. You may not even have noticed them. But they are a powerful reminder of the town’s sacrifices in the First World War.

  • New Website Launch

    Welcome to the Cheltenham Remembers WW1 commemoration website. Please browse through the site for news, articles and information. Cheltenham Remembers project team Rebecca Sillence, Louise Forey and Jane Stovell at the website launch with University of Gloucestershire student Zoe Smith who designed our new website for her media production course.