Name
Charles Edward Garner
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/12/1915
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
4/7013
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CORBIE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Plot I. Row C. Grave 7.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Sacombe Village Memorial
Pre War
Born and lived in Sacombe Pound, Herts. Parents David and Alice (Harvey) Garner. Worked as a horseman on a farm in 1911.
Before enlistment he had worked at Sacombe Bury Farm for many year. He enlisted on August 7th, 1914.
Wartime Service
It was reported that he was wounded on December 24th, 1916 and died on December 27th, however officially this was recorded as the 25th. he had been home on leave three weeks before his was wounded.
Additional Information
At the time of his death he had two brothers in the Army, one in the Bedfordshires and one in the Herts.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
