BORN HULL 1893. SON OF ARTHUR & ALICE ROBERTS, OF 2 PARK GROVE, PULMAN STREET, HULL. A FORMER LABOURER. ENLISTED HULL ON THE 14/02/1911. SERVING AS A REGULAR SOLDIER IN THE WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT WHEN WAR BEGAN. ARRIVED IN BELGIUM WITH THE BEF. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 20/10/1914, AGED 21. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO BOTH PARENTS. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 21/11/1914, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *.
COMMEMORATED: Ploegsteert Memorial, Ploegsteert, Arrondissement de Mouscron, Hainaut, Belgium
First name:
CHARLES HENRY
Military Number:
9507
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
20/10/1914
Place died:
Ploegsteert Memorial, Hainaut, Belgium
Age:
21
2 PARK GROVE, PULMAN STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
