Welcome to the Glos 100 Website
oh! what a lovely war!
Our Commemoration Sing-a-Long Concert is on tonight at the Gloucester Guildhall starting at 7pm. There will be a raffle, the wonderful choirs: Wessex Male Choir and The Innsworth Military Wives Choir and a number of all-time war classics for you to sing along to, such as Pack up Your Troubles, Keep the Home Fire Burning, and many more!
All proceeds will be going to two very worthy charities: Royal British Legion & the Rifles Fund (Care for Casualties).
Click on the image below to enlarge the map to see the recommended car park location to use if you are driving to the concert (Kings Walk Car Park).
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WW1 Centenary Year
This year is a very significant one because it is exactly 100 years ago that the 'last year' of WW1 took place.
2018 will be the Centenary of the last year and the end of Great War / World War 1
The call to arms was heard in the Great war of 1914-1918.
The Gloucestershire Regiment raised a total of 25 battalions and was awarded 72 Battle Honours, 4 Victoria Crosses and lost 8,100 men during the course of the war. These figures do not include RAF and Navy!
It felt only right to honour and commemorate the sacrifices given by the men and women (Role & Rights of Women) in WW1 of Gloucestershire and also to enlighten people of the sacrifices of those from around the British Empire and other Allied Countries.
This website will hope to promote both Aims and Events of 'GLOS100' and any other WW1 Commemoration events.
It will also pull together a wide and wealth of information & resources that all generations might learn from and enjoy both now and in the future.
Latest News
Chris talking on BBC Radio Gloucestershire - 21st September 2018
Dominic Cotter Show
Listen to Chris chat with Dominic Cotter on the BBC Radio Gloucestershire afternoon show that was aired on 21st September 2018. Chris was invited onto the show to give a final promotion of his up-coming event called "Oh What a Lovely War!", which is a sing-a-long concert taking place on 23rd October 2018 at the Guildhall in Gloucester. Tickets are available from the Guildhall online booking office . Standard tickets cost £10. Concession for over 65's: £7.50.
Available until 22nd October 2018
Francis George Miles VC
Francis George Miles was born in 1896 and lived in the village of Clearwell in the Forest of Dean. Like many of his generation; he left school at the age of 13 and went to work in the Princes Royal Company mines near his home.
Aged 18 when war broke out, he was filled with patriotism and enlisted with his stepfather on 28 December 1914 in the 9th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment.
Click on the image below to learn more about this incredibly couragous individual and to hear his story on the BBC Sounds Website.
Clearwell, Forest of Dean: Miner Who Became a VC Medalist
Visit the BBC World War One - At Home webpage - Stories by BBC Radio Stations to listen to stories from teams across the UK about people and places during WW1
Taste The Trench
The Glos100 Taste the Trench event was held outside Shirehall in Westgate Street, Gloucester, on 25th August 2018, to raise money (£271.28) for Combat Stress, a charity that supports mental health with Veterans. See our Press Release for more information.
Poppy Making
A group of school children at Witton Park High School in Lancashire are hand making poppies to raise money for Blesma.
Each of the poppies represent men who left the local area for war - and never came home.
Glorious Glosters
This is a YouTube video featuring a song about a Gloucestershire Regiment called Glorious Glosters. This song was written by a man called Johnny Coppin and the music arrangement is played by the Gloucestershire Regiment Regimental Band. If you would like to purchase his CD, it is available from Johnny Coppin's website.
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen was born 18 March 1893 in Oswestry, Shropshire. After school he became a teaching assistant and in 1913 went to France for two years to work as a language tutor. He began writing poetry as a teenager.
Owen was an English poet whose work was characterised by his anger at the cruelty and waste of war, which he experienced during service on the Western Front. Learn more...
