Branch Membership

The Western Front Association has branches throughout the UK and overseas with the purpose of furthering the aims of the Association.

The Cheltenham & Gloucester Branch welcome new members. We have many plans and projects which we would like to pursue and your support would be much appreciated.

You can download an application form to join the branch by clicking here.

The benefits of branch membership are:

• You will receive a membership card
• You will receive our newsletter The Sentinel three times a year, in addition to our usual monthly newsletters
• …but, most importantly, you will be supporting your local branch. We look forward to welcoming you to our meetings.

Articles that have featured in The Sentinel are listed below. If you would like a pdf copy of any of these, please drop us an email.

Title	Article Author	Sentinel Issue
11.11.11 A Very Moving Experience	Helen Earle	14
17cm Minenwerfer	Fred Ashmore	16
1916 Christmas in the Field	Fred Ashmore	13
7th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment in Gallipoli	Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum	46
A Cruise To Remember	Colin Hardy	22
A Dazzling Display	Hilary Jennings	24
A Fateful Morning	Graham Adams	48
A Great War Evening at Eastcombe	Graham Adams	23
A Great War Survivor		24
A Hero on the Home Front (Lieutenant Leefe-Robinson VC)	Hilary Jennings	5
A Lake District Memorial	Paul Haigh	51
A Letter from the Front Line		4
A Missing Tommy	Roger Nall	39
A Review of Comrades in Captivity by F W Harvey		11
A Terrific Ten!	Peter Gill/Peter Simkins	27
A True Picture	Paul Cobb	49
A Visit to France 1927		16
A Walk Around Albert Communal Extension Cemetery	Martin Middlebrook	29
ANZAC Centenary Commemorations of the Gallipoli Campaign	Helen & David Earle	23
ANZAC Parade at Leighterton	Helen Earle	20
ANZACs in Leighterton	Helen & David Earle	17
Armed Forces Day	Adrian Smith	50
Arras Boves	Martin Middlebrook	20
Austrian Heavy Artillery	Fred Ashmore	39
Authuile Military Cemetery	Martin Middlebrook	25
Aveluy Wood Cemetery	Martin Middlebrook	6
Boy Soldiers of the 5th Glosters	Martin & Teresa Davies	42
Brought Home	Graham Adams	45
Bruce Bairnsfather looks back		11
Captain Anketell Moutray Read VC		7
Cast In Stone	Paul Haigh	23
Charles Rumney Samson 1883 – 1931	Fred Ashmore	18
Cirencester and the Life Guards	Robert Webb	25
Collector’s Corner (Postcard)	Fred Ashmore	6
Commemorative Stone for Dursley’s VC	Graham Adams	31
Compiegne and the Marne	Ian Goodridge	50
Courts Martial in the Great War	Bob Brunsdon	6
CWGC Archive Project		11
Daisy Daking the Pixie	Ian Goodridge	42
Edward Thomas	Helen & David Earle	9
Elisabeth Garde Grenadier Regiment No. 3	Fred Ashmore	12
F W Harvey’s Capture	Roger Deeks	15
Far From The Battlefield	Mick Miller	29
Field Marshall Sir Claud Jacob GCB GCSI KCMG	Richard A Farrimond	39
Flight Cadet William Douglas Henderson	Bob Brunsdon	15
Foot-slogging Over Belgian Ways	Bob Brunsdon	4
For Valour – A Victoria Cross Winner in Milverton	Graham Ashmore	43
Forgotten Foresters and CWGC	Eric Nicholls	16
Formation Insignia or World War One (Part 1)	Bob Brunsdon	13
Formation Insignia or World War One (Part 2)	Bob Brunsdon	16
Four Officers of Guillemont	Martin Middlebrook	10
Francis Gordon Davis	Ian Hollingsbee	39
From Dudley to Hollywood via The Western Front	Hilary Jennings	32
From Hell’s Angels to a Happy Ending	Bob Brunsdon	19
From the Western Front to a Pauper’s Grave	Graham Adams	34
George William Cother		18
Gloucester Civic Trust WW1 Commemorative Event		21
Gloucestershire War Graves Project (February 2008)	Graham Adams	2
Gloucestershire War Graves Project Update (October 2008)	Graham Adams	4
Gloucestershire War Graves Project Update (February 2009)	Graham Adams	5
Gloucestershire War Graves Project (October 2009)	Graham Adams	7
Gloucestershire War Graves Project (February 2010)	Graham Adams	8
Gloucestershire War Graves Project (June 2011)	Graham Adams	11
Gloucestershire War Graves Project (February 2013)	Graham Adams	16
Gloucestershire War Graves Project (June 2014)	Graham Adams	20
Gloucestershire War Graves Project (February 2022)	Graham Adams	43
Gloucestershire’s Belgian Soldier’s Grave	Martin Middlebrook	14
Gommecourt	Bob Brunsdon	9
Help for Heroes Big Battlefield Bike Ride 2014	Bob Brunsdon	21
Home Truths	Professor Peter Simkins	8
Imperial War Graves Commission Letter To Relatives	Martin Middlebrook	17
Introducing The Sentinel	Peter Gill	1
Ireland : February 1921 a black month for Gloucestershire	Graham Adams	49
Just A Chill	Graham Adams	38
Kaiser Wilhelm II	Fred Ashmore	43
King Nicholas I of Montenegro	Fred Ashmore	26
Lance Corporal Archie Forrest	Peter Gill	32
Last Journey for Arthur – 100 Years On	Michael Miller	36
Leighterton	Helen & David Earle	50
Leighterton ANZAC Day Parade and Service	Helen & David Earle	32
Lieutenant Colonel John McRae	Helen & David Earle	10
Lieutenant George Ferrier Mansfield Hall	Bob Brunsdon	17
Lieutenant Richard Fletcher, RFA	Hilary Kemmett	20
Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart	Len Evans	46
Majors Kent & Raper	Martin Middlebrook	9
Making a Change	Graham Adams	25
Marie Curie in the Great War	Graham Adams	46
Military History Fair at the Folk of Gloucester	Adrian Smith	49
Military Tribunals in the Forest of Dean	Martin & Teresa Davies	50
Memorials on the Salient: Number 1	Peter Gill	5
Message From Our Branch President	Professor Peter Simkins	1
Military History Fair	Adrian Smith	47
Miss Mabel Jennings ARRC, TFNS, MM	Ian Hollingsbee	20
Mrs Eyres Monsell’s Adventure		12
My Aunt at Mons 1914 – 1918	Martin Middlebrook	3
My Brave Great Grandfather	Adrian Smith	49
My Mum’s Big Brother	Michael Miller	4
Not In Silent Cities: War Graves in the UK	Graham Adams	3
Not The Western Front but ‘The Push to the East’	Fred Ashmore	17
Pageant in Paris		28
Paul Thomas Bevan Remembered	Philip S Bevan	3
Peace Day 28 June 1919	Fred Ashmore	35
Poetry From The Great War		1
Pork & Beans: Portugal and the Great War	Graham Adams	8
Private Davis and Corporal Moon	Ian Goodridge	31
Private Francis George Miles VC	Edward Fletcher	6
Private Godfrey’s War	Peter Gill	40
Private Gus Tucker (21399), 7th Battalion, Glos Regiment	Michael O’Brien	45
Private Robert Kenneth Malcolm laid to rest in Belgium	MOD Press Release	47
Private Sherrill C Crockett, 7th Battalion, Glos Regiment	Michael O’Brien	44
Private Sidney Cockram	Andy Hinks	9
Reconnaissance in the Tank Corps 1916 – 1918 (Part 1)	Colin Hardy	19
Reconnaissance in the Tank Corps 1916 – 1918 (Part 2)	Colin Hardy	23
Rendcomb’s Great War Casualty	Simon Fielding	4
Retracing My Grandfather’s Footsteps	Steve Graham	28
Rifleman Sydney Hickham (471277)	David Rogers	31
Ross-on-Wye Remembers	Andy Hinks	21
SS Satrap – A Maritime Mystery?	David Rogers	35
Scottish Memorial on Frezenberg Ridge	Gordon Baker	3
Second Lieutenant Herbert Knollys Foster	Bob Brunsdon	12
Setting Foot in Gallipoli for the First Time	Graham Adams	1
South of Suez: Operations in Southern Arabia 1914-18	Graham Adams	35
Success comes to the Tanks at Cambrai	A Bacon	29
Supplying the BEF during the Great War		6
Talbot House: A Home from Home		2
Territorial Force Esprit de Corps : Locally Fact or Fiction	Martin & Teresa Davies	40
The ‘Battle Readiness’ Training of the 1st/5th Gloucesters in 1914-15	Martin & Teresa Davies	45
The 18-Pounder Shrapnel Shell	Martin Middlebrook	46
The 1928 Great War Battlefield Pilgrimage	Eric Nicholls	26
The Albert Medal – Three Gloucestershire Connections	Graham Adams	46
The ‘Battle Readiness’ Trainingof the 1st/5th Gloucesters in 1914-15	Martin & Teresa Davies	45
The Beaumont Hamel Highlander	Martin Middlebrook	13
The Bois Francais Sector	Martin Middlebrook	24
The Cemeteries on the Serre Road	Martin Middlebrook	2
The Centenary of the Unknown Warrior 1920-2020	Dave & Helen Earle	42
The Dearmers of Oakridge Lynch	Cecil Ballantine	22
The Diary of Sergeant Albert Henry Duggins MM (Part I)		26
The Diary of Sergeant Albert Henry Duggins MM (Part II)		27
The Finale (or The Intermission)	Fred Ashmore	33
The Glory Hole: La Boiselle		12
The Lochnagar Mine Crater at La Boiselle	Martin Middlebrook	18
The Loos Big Walk: 22 and 23 September 2018	Ian Goodridge	34
The Paris Gun	Fred Ashmore	9
The Princess Mary 1914 Christmas Gift	Edward Fletcher	7
The Reinforcement Drafts of the 5th Gloucesters	Martin & Teresa Davies	43
The Robert House Story (my interest in World War 1)	Tony Gilbert	41
The Russian Expeditionary Force in France 1916-1918 (Postcards)	Fred Ashmore	46
The Sinking of SS Perisa	Stuart Fraser	28
The Story of TocH		28
The Soldiers’ Own Diary 1917	Graham Adams	12
The Somme: A Sri Lankan Connection?	Paul Haigh	19
The Wayside Cross Centenary Rededication Service	Helen & Dave Earle	30
Three Brothers	Fred Ashmore	22
Three Memorial Crosses at the Butte de Warlencourt		28
Titanic’s Great War Links	Graham Adams	14
Trench Orders: Part One		30
Trench Orders: Part Two		33
Trench Orders: Part Three		35
Trench Orders: Part Four		36
Two Graves on the Somme	Cecil Ballantine	19/30
WW1 Artefacts in Unusual Places	Paul Haigh	40
WW1 in the Cinema	Ian Goodridge	38
War Memorial Bells at Holy Trinity Church	Eric Nicholls	7
We Shall Remember Vimy …	Hilary Kemmett	2
What was the true worth of the medial examination of recruits on enlistment? Overview from case studies of soldiers of the 5th Gloucesters	Martin & Teresa Davies	47
Wilfred Edward Clausen 1888-1918	Fred Ashmore	31
What’s The Connection	Fred Ashmore	14
William Noel Hodgson: The Gentle Poet	Helen & David Earle	8
World War 1 – British Settler Societies – Their National Component Commanders	Richard Farrimond	44
World War One in the Cinema of the 1930s: Part 1	Ian Goodridge	48
WW1 Artefacts in Unusual Places	Paul Haigh	40
WW1 in the Cinema	Ian Goodridge	38

Updated December 2024