Name
Charles Reginald Winckley
9 Dec 1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/07/1916
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
15th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.
France
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
Aldenham School Memorial, Aldenham, C R Winckley, Memorial Window, Billingborough, Lincs.
Pre War
Charles Reginald Winkley was the eldest son of Rev Charles Richard Thorold (Retired Bengal chaplain) and Amy (nee Underwood). He was born in Nowgong, Central India on 9 Dec 1893.
He attended Aldenham School. On leaving school entered National Provincial Bank of England (now Natwest) and then Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation (now HSBC) both in Central London. He was 19th out of 700 in the Institute of Bankers Examination.
Wartime Service
He joined Inns of Court OTC as Private in May 1915. Gazetted as 2nd Lieutenant 9 Oct 1915 to Sherwood Foresters He went to France May 1916 with 15th (Nottingham) Battalion.
Killed in action 20 July 1916 while leading an attack.
Biography
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Tony James
