Category: Band of Brothers
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.