HAMBLING David

Additional information on the Roll of Service: Pte

David William Hambling was born in 1876 in Withington, Gloucestershire.  In 1911, aged 35, he was resident in Bushley with his wife Ethel and their 3 young children.  He served as Private 246097, Labour Corps formerly Private 16281, Gloucestershire Regiment.  He went to France on 29th June 1915.  David Hambling died in Cheltenham in 1939 aged 63.

The Bushley, Longden, Queenhill and Holdfast Almanack and Year Book for 1915:
The Roll of Honour.
Bushley
The following is a List of Bushley men now serving their country in the Army.
1. Those who have enlisted for the War:
David Morgan, of Hill House, Lance-Corpl. 5th Glo’ster Territorials
William Nash, son of Mr Nash, Bushley School€¦.Culham School-masters Corps
Cecil Jones€¦.Trooper, Somerset Yeomanry.

In Kitcheners’s Army
J.O. Griffin (late chauffeur at Pull Court) Lance-Corpl. 9th Glo’sters
A.H. Walker, Lance-Corporal 9th Glo’sters
Henry Starling, of Freebarns End, 9th Glo’sters
J.T. Philpot, Bushley Green, 9th Glo’sters
Thos. Lane, The Gardens, Pull Court, 9th Glo’sters
H.G. Trigg, 9th Glo’sters
Charles Blake, Church End, 9th Glo’sters
A.A. Blake, 9th Glo’sters
Nathaniel W. George (who died in Hospital, Dec. 1) 9th Glo’sters
Richard Smith, Green Street Lodge, 9th Glo’sters
David Hamblin, 9th Glo’sters