PILCHER Gerald Aubrey

  • First Name(s):
    Gerald 
    Aubrey 
  • Surname:
    PILCHER
  • Service Number:
    Unknown
  • Rank:

    Lieutenant

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Artillery
  • Corps:
    Royal Field Artillery
  • Brigade:
    159th Brigade
  • Unit:
    D Battery
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    26th October 1917
  • Age At Death:
    21
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Dozinghem Military Cemetery, Belgium, Grave X. D. 3.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Percy William and Martha Mowbray Pilcher, of Gorswen, Kingsland, Shrewsbury

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PILCHER Gerald Aubrey Is Named On These Memorials

Bromsgrove School WW1 Memorial

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Additional information on the memorial: Lieut.

Further Information About PILCHER Gerald Aubrey

Gerald Pilcher was born in 1896.  He attended Bromsgrove School from 1909 – 1914.  He was Head Monitor, played in the school XV and was a Sergeant in OTC.  He was elected to a Cooke’s Scholarship at Worcester College, Oxford in December 1914 but enlisted and passed very rapidly through his training and was soon in France.  There he was severely wounded and returned home.  He was later wounded by shrapnel and he died soon after.

Source: Bromsgrove School at War 1914-19 by Philip Bowen and Bromsgrove School at War 1914-19 by David Cross.

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