Name
Charles Budd
1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/06/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
4698
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
attd. 254th Tunnelling Coy. Royal Engineers
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GORRE BRITISH AND INDIAN CEMETERY
I. B. 20.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Buntingford Town Memorial, St Peter's Church Memorial, Buntingford, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford, Not on the Westmill memorials
Pre War
Charles Budd was born in 1890 in Westmill, Hertfordshire, the son of George and Sarah Budd (nee Horne) and one of eight children.
His mother died in 1896 aged 47, but his father remarried in 1899 to Sarah Annie Morgan and on the 1901 Census the family were living in Knight Hill, Westmill, Hertfordshire where his father was working as a gardener domestic. By the 1911 Census Charles was shown as living with his parents and one brother in Thrift Cottage, Westmill, and was working as a farm labourer.
His attestation papers signed in 1915 give his family address as Newtown, Buntingford.
Wartime Service
He enlisted at Hertford and joined the Hertfordshire Regiment from 1 March 1915, embarking from Southampton on 17 August 1915 to serve in France and joining No. 4 Entrenching Battalion in field on 20 August.
Charles suffered from scabies, myalgia and other ailments from the end of 1915 into the beginning of 1916 but suffered an injury to his right leg in April 1916 which necessitated being admitted to No. 4 Stationary Hospital for nearly two weeks. He then re-joined the Battalion in the field and was attached for duty to the 3rd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment.
Charles was killed in action on 19 June 1916 and, although not confirmed on his service record, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website states that he was then attached to the 254th Tunnelling Coy. Royal Engineers. He is buried in Gorre British and Indian Cemetery, France.
Additional Information
His father and stepmother jointly received the war gratuity of £5 and pay owing of £9 2s 1d. His stepmother also received a pension, initially of 4s 3d a week, rising to 5 shillings a week.
Acknowledgments
Kate Thompson, Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, Carol Emery, Jonty Wild
