Name
Charles Lewis Andrews
1898
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/11/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
23439
Essex Regiment
1st/7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GAZA WAR CEMETERY
XXVI. E. 9.
Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, Christ Church (formerly Holy Trinity Church) Memorial, Waltham Cross
Pre War
Charles Lewis Andrews was born in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, in 1898, son of Lewis Arthur Andrews and Sophia Andrews (nee Morris). The youngest of five children, Albert (B 1887), Florence (B 1889), Alice (B 1891, and William (B Abt. 1894). He was Baptised in the Parish of Waltham Cross, Herts, on 3 August 1898.
1901 Census records Charles aged 2, living with his parents and four siblings at, 300, Trinity Marsh Lane, Cheshunt, Herts.
1911 Census records Charles aged 12, at school, living with his parents, and three siblings at, 44, Crossbrook Street, Cheshunt, Herts.
Wartime Service
Charles travelled to the County Town of Hertford to enlist. Posted to the Essex Regiment with the service number 23439. Seeing service in Palestine.
Charles was killed in action on 2 November 1917, at the Third Battle of Gaza (1st & 2nd November 1917).
He is buried in the Gaza War Cemetery (Israel and Palestine).
Additional Information
His brother Driver 71335 William Arthur Andrews of the Royal Field Artillery was also lost in the war. (Died on 27 November 1918, in Italy). His mother Sophia Andrews received a dependents pension of 5/- a week from 28 May 1918. His effects of £4-3s-8d, Pay Owing and a War Gratuity of £3, went to his father Lewis Andrews.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
