Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Four: Gunner H. Glover, Royal Field Artillery, killed in action in the First Battle of the Aisne, 14 September 1914
1914 Star (50355 Gnr: H. Glover. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (50355 Gnr. H. Glover. R.A.), with transmittal envelope addressed to ‘Mr J Glover, Great Gidding, Peterborough’; Memorial Plaque (Horace Glover) extremely fine

Pair: Gunner W. Glover, Royal Artillery
British War and Victory Medals (111986 Gnr. W. Glover. R.A.) in named card boxes of issue, together with transmittal envelopes addressed to ‘Gnr. W Glover, Gt Gidding, Hunts’ and to ‘Mr W. Glover, c/o Mr L. Glover, Tongue End, Near Spalding’, nearly extremely fine (6) £240-280

Horace Glover was born in 1889, the son of John and Mary Ann Glover, of Great Gidding, Peterborough, Huntingdonshire. A groom, living in Filgrave, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, formerly of Lutton, near Oundle, Northamptonshire and Great Gidding, he joined the 3rd (Militia) Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment in December 1904, aged 17. He joined the regular army, Northamptonshire Regiment on 2 February 1905. By 1911, he had returned to Great Gidding as a groom, living at Mill Lane Cottages. He enlisted in the Royal Field Artillery in Northampton and served during the Great War on the Western Front with the 49th Battery, 40th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, as part of the Third Division, from 19 August 1914. He was killed in action on 14 September 1914 during the First Battle of the Aisne, aged 25. He has no known grave and is commemorated on La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial, France. He is also commemorated on the War Memorial and Rolls of Honour, St. Michael’s Church, Great Gidding and the War Memorial, St. Peter’s-at-Gowts, Lincoln.

On 14 September 1914, 40th Brigade R.F.A. crossed the Aisne at the canal bridge at Pont-Arcy. The bridge was heavily shelled with high explosive during the crossing and casualties amounted to 1 Officer killed, 1 Officer wounded, 6-8 men killed and 20-30 horses killed.

Walter Glover was one of Horace Glover’s younger brothers and was born in 1891 in Great Gidding. By 1911, he was living in Deeping St. Nicholas, Lincolnshire. He served on the Western Front post 1915.

The Rolls of Honour, St. Michael’s Church, Great Gidding, list six members of the ‘Glover’ family, including Horace and Walter, as having served during the Great War. Horace Glover is noted as one of seven parishioners of the church who died during the war.