| Charles enlisted at Warley, Brentwood into the Essex Regt (27550)
but later transferred to the Northamptonshire Regt (40381) 2nd Batt as a
private, which was the Regular Army. He was killed in action 24th July 1917
aged 24, in the Ypres sector just a week before the Battle of Pilckem, and was
buried at the Perth Cemetery (China Wall) Plot I.D.5. It was called Perth (for
an unknown reason), China Wall (from the communication trench known as the
Great Wall of China), or Halfway House Cemetery. The cemetery was used for
front line burials until October 1917 when it occupied about half of the
present Plot I and contained 130 graves. |