Name
Charles Gordon Hayward
16/09/1885
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/12/1917
33
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
590380
London Regiment (London Irish Rifles)
2nd/18th (County of London) Bn.
'D' Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
JERUSALEM WAR CEMETERY
T. 33.
Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)
Headstone Inscription
LIFE'S WORK WELL DONE
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Borehamwood memorials
Pre War
Charles Gordon Hayward was born on 16 September 1885, in Hornsey, London/Middlesex, the son of Charles Hayward, an Accountant in the newspaper industry and Eliza Hayward (nee Fordham). He was one of five children.
Charles was Baptised on 27 December 1885, at St Mary’s Church Hornsey, Lon/Middx.
1901 Census records Charles aged 15, living with his parents and sisters Grace (18) and Muriel (11) at, 45, Granville Road, Hornsey, Lon/Middx. The family had a live-in Domestic Servant. The 1911 Census records Charles aged 25, single and a Painter/Artist, living on his own at, Cottage Studio, Radcliff Road, South Kensington, Lon/Middx.
Wartime Service
Charles enlisted at Chelsea, posted to the 2nd/18th (County of London Battalion) London Irish Rifles, with the service number 1736, (his service number indicates he enlisted around Aug/Sept 1914).
Charles arrived in France in October 1916, joining his Battalion in the Line near Vimy. In November 1916, Charles and his Battalion moved to Salonica seeing action there until July 1917, when they moved to Egypt, later that year they moved to Palestine and the Transjordan area. It was here on the 23 December 1917, that Charles was killed in action.
Additional Information
His effects of £20-00s-9d, Pay Owing £15-10s-00d, War Gratuity went to his father Charles Hayward.
The only connection Charles had to Borehamwood was his parents lived at “Ashdown” Borehamwood, Herts, as recorded by the CWGC Headstone inscription register.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
