Name
Charles William Law
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/10/1914
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
6972
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
"B" Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Panel 10 and 11.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials
Pre War
Son of Charles William and Sarah Ann (nee ORCHARD) LAW of Watford; husband of Florence Emily (nee BARBER) LAW of Enfield, Middx.
His parents married 7 August 1881 at St Mark’s, Regent’s Park, London. Sarah died 1934 in the St Pancras, London, district aged 74; Charles died 1940 in Watford aged 82, and was buried 18 October in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford.
Charles was born 1884 in St Pancras, and was on the staff of H.M. Stationery Office. He married 23 April 1911 at St Andrew’s, Enfield; they had one child. He resided in Watford. Florence remarried 1919 in the Edmonton, Middx, district to Hugh C NORRIS, and possibly died 1951 in the Hampstead, London, district aged 64.
On the 1891 Census, a scholar aged 7 he lived in St Pancras, with his parents and one sibling. On the 1901 Census, aged 17 he was a visitor in Watford. On the 1911 Census, a hall attendant aged 27, he lived in Woolwich, London.
Recorded as born in St Pancras, Middlesex and was living in Watford when he enlisted in London.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in London 1 May 1901, a labourer; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914 Star medals, his qualifying date being 30 August 1914, and was killed in action at Givenchy-les-La Bassé which the Battalion occupied the day before; violent shelling began at 6am and continued all day.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Charles’ Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
