Name
Charles John Agombar
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/10/1918
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
202647
Leicestershire Regiment
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
AMERVAL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, SOLESMES
B. 21.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Letchworth Town Memorial,
Central Methodist Church Memorial, Letchworth,
Church of St Nicholas Memorial, Norton
Pre War
Born Bethnal Green, London, the son of Charles Benjamin and Ellen Agombar, of Letchworth, Herts. (see story on our Letchworth(*1).
The 1911 Census shows Charles J Agombar, aged 20, at No 13, with his father, Charles, and mother Helen, both aged 45, and sisters Helen, Dorothy and Beatrice, aged 18, 13 and 11. Father, son, and eldest daughter are all in the printing trade.
Worked at J M Dent & Sons, Letchworth GC as a bookbinder.
He lived at 13 Temple Gardens, Letchworth GC and had moved to Letchworth in 1907. Charles married Ada Gladys Holliday (formerly Agombar), of 260, Harrow Rd., Paddington, London in 1915 and they had three children.
Wartime Service
He was wounded in action 26 September 1915, then killed near Selle, France later in 1918.
Additional Information
The Huguenot origins of Charles’ family and the military circumstances of his death are described in an article written by John Birch, titled “From Huguenot refugees to Letchworth hero – the story of Charles John Agombar”, which can be found on http://www.ourletchworth.org.uk – part of the Herts Memories network.
Acknowledgments
Dan Hill, Janet Capstick, Jonty Wild, www.ourletchworth.org.uk/page_id__323_path__.aspx
