Shearn, Charles Henry

Pte, Charles Henry Shearn, Somerset Light Infantry

BORN BRISTOL 1875. SON OF FRANCIS HENRY AND ANNIE ELIZABETH SHEARN, MIDSOMER, OF 27 STEAM MILLS, MIDSOMER NORTON, SOMERSET. HE RESIDED IN HULL. WORKED ON HULL DOCKS FOR MESSRS WILSON. WAS RESERVE MAN CALLED UP. HAD SERVED IN THE BOER WAR. SERVED WITH THE 6TH SOMERSET LIGHT INFANTRY. TWICE WOUNDED IN FRANCE. HE WAS 37 YEARS OLD AND KILLED INSTANTLY BY A BULLET TO THE FOREHEAD, ON 09/12/1917. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW ELIZABETH SHEARN AT THIS ADDRESS. HIS OFFICER WROTE THAT “HE WAS A GOOD WORKER AND KEPT CHEERFUL UNDER THE MOST TRYING OF CIRCUMSTANCES.” HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 4TH MAY 1917, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *


First name:
CHARLES HENRY
Military Number:
26534
Rank:
Private
Date Died
09/12/1917
Place died:
Agny Military Cemetery, Pas De Calais, France
Age:
37
8 REGENT TERRACE, PROVIDENCE ROW, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom