Thornbury has many poignant stories of men who fought in the First World War.
William and Herbert Pearce were the sons of Thomas and Sarah Pearce of The Baths in Thornbury. The Pearce family was lucky as both sons survived the war. Many families were less fortunate.
The wedding photographs illustrate one of the familiar stories of the war – a very short marriage.
Claude Higgins had enlisted into the Royal Army Medical Corps before he married Rhoda Revers in the summer of 1916. Early in 1917 he disembarked at Basra and soon afterwards drowned in the River Tigris whilst rescuing a friend.
Robert Perkins married Rose Mormon in November 1914. He survived the war but died in November 1918 of influenza, aged 25.
Others who fought include Colonel Turner of Old Down House and Algar Howard of Thornbury Castle who formed The Old Down Territorial Troop of the Royal Gloucestershire Hussars Yeomanry in 1906. The troop was made up of local farmers and the area’s best horses. They were all called up together in 1914 at the outbreak of the Great War.
Many more photographs and stories are on display at Thornbury Museum's exhibition about the First World War.
The exhibition will be up until Christmas.
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