Name
Charles Joseph Hayward (DCM)
Unknown
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/06/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Serjeant
11943
The King's (Liverpool Regiment)
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Distinguished Conduct Medal
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 3.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Hemel Hempstead memorials
Pre War
Charles Joseph Hayward was born in Birmingham
He gave his residence as Hemel Hempstead on enlistment.
(His sister Maggie married Frederick Breed in Portsmouth in 1914)
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Stratford Upon Avon and joined the Liverpool Regiment as Private 11943 and served in France from 24 March 1915.
He was promoted to Corporal and later to Lance Sergeant and awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for gallantry.
Death was presumed on 1 June 1916. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
Additional Information
His sister Maggie Breed received a war gratuity of £9 10s and pay owing of £14 16s 4d,
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
www.iwm.org.uk
