And here’s the one that I was waiting to see for the entire tour. Unknown to me until @frothelhorse found it. The family grave commemorating the three Nott brothers, all of whom served in the 1/6th Gloucesters. 
A distinguished local family from Stoke Bishop, they all went to @Clifton_College & @EmmaCambridge
The youngest, 21 year old Henry Paton Nott (known as Pat) killed in a communication trench at Hebuterne on 27 April 1916. Buried at Hebuterne Military Cemetery. His brother Cameron wrote home ‘Many men of his company were in tears as they were very fond of our kid’
And then the sad tale of Thomas and Cameron, by April 1917 the CO and Adjutant of the battalion. Killed along with another four officers in a cellar in Villers Faucon when a German delayed action mine exploded. It must’ve been such a grievous blow to the battalion.
Their father Louis, an engineer, had died in July 1916 so their mother Mary Elizabeth lost her husband and three sons in the space of a year. I simply don’t know how she carried on.
And here are all three brothers named on the 6th Battalion memorial Clive Burlton & I are arranging to have repaired and reinstalled. More details (including how to donate!) here westernfrontfootsteps.wordpress.com/6th-gloucester…
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