Name
Charles Turvey
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
12/01/1917
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
2115
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st/1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VLAMERTINGHE MILITARY CEMETERY
V. E. 4.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Christchurch Memorial, Chorleywood, Memorial Hall Plaque, Chorleywood, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Born in 1896 in Chesham, Buckinghamshire son of Frederick and Sarah Turvey and living in 4 Ellwood Terrace, Chorleywood in 1911. He was a domestic gardener.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Chorleywood in Mar 1913, entered France on 6 Nov 1914 and was killed in action by shelling in the trenches.
Additional Information
Brother of Private Frederick Turvey who died in service on 20 Sep 1918 and is also commemorated on these memorials. Charley is mentioned in a very thorough biography for Jack Alfred Willmott by Paul Johnson, which appears in the website’s Archive section at: http://www.hertsatwar.co.uk/archives/hertfordshire-men-women-individuals-stories/jack-alfred-willmott-biography/
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Jonty Wild
