Name
Charles Alfred Blanchett
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/11/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
B/201443
Rifle Brigade (The Prince Consort’s Own)
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PRESEAU COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
C. 5.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Essendon Village Memorial, St Mary the Virgin Church Memorial, Essendon, Not on the Hertford memorials
Pre War
Born 4th March 1899 in Essendon, Hertfordshire. The Son of Charles and Sarah Blanchett.
Baptised on the 14th May 1899, in Essendon, Hertfordshire. Charles was Baptised “Alfred Charles Barnet Blanchett”. He later resided in Cricklewood, Middlesex.
The 1901 Census shows Charles as “Alfred C. B. Blanchet aged 2 years and living with his Father, Mother, 3 Brothers Fredrick, Ernest & Reginald and Sister Violet who was the eldest at 5 Hambury Cottages, Essendon, Hertfordshire. The 1911 Census Charles as “Alfred Charles Blanchett” aged 12 years and living with his widowed Mother, 2 Brothers, Ernest, & Reginald and Sister Violet, at 5 Hambury Cottages, Essendon, Hertfordshire.
Wartime Service
Charles enlisted in Willesden, Middlesex, using the name Charles Alfred Blanchett, initially with the Royal Army Service Corps, as a Private with the service number M/301271. Then transferred to the Rifle Brigade, 28th Battalion London Regiment as a Private with the service number B/201443 and then to the 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade (Prince Consorts Own) with the same service number B/201443. He was killed in Action on the 1st November 1918.
Acknowledgments
Sue and Colin Rees, Stuart Osborne
