The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has 2,456 recorded WW1 deaths for the 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment.
CHAMBERS, R.A.M. Second Lieutenant. 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, Attached :- 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Lapugnoy Military Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais, France. 15-10-1915.
HURCOMBE, H. Private, 7778. 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Poperinge Communal Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. 23-10-1914. Age 26. Husband of Alice B. Hurcombe of Guinea Street Gloucester, UK.
Stone Inscription :- "From Loving Wife And Son".
PRIESTLEY, Charles Lacey. Captain. "C" Company, 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Oxford Road Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. 11-11-1917. Age 20. Son of Vharles William & Annie Priestley (nee Lacey) of Richmond Lodge, Torquay, Devon, UK. Born at Torquay in 1897.
RISING, (DSO.MiD). Robert Edward. Major. 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Zillebeke Churchyard, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Killed in action near Ypres. 07-11-1914. Age 43. Son of Thomas & Kate Rising of The Manor House, Great Ormesby, Norfolk. Husband of Constance Elizabeth Rising (nee Edis) of The Old Hall, Great Ormesby, Norfolk, UK. Born 23rd May 1871. Educated at Charterhouse School & Trinity College Cambridge, Commisioned into Gloucestershire Regiment 1892. Served in South Africa 1899-1900. Promoted to Captain 1900. Adjutant 3rd Volunteer Battalion 1905. Then Major in 1st Battalion. Stone Inscription :- "Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori". (From Horace's Odes :- It Is Sweet And Proper To Die For The Fatherland)
Distinguished Service Order.
Mentioned in Dispatches.
TAYLOR, Frank Harold. Private, 26487. 1st Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment. Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval, Somme, France. 08-09-1916. Age 26. Son of Matthew Henry Taylor of Bristol, UK.
Stone Inscription :- "Greater Love Hath No Man, John 15.13".