Name
Charles Burgess
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/08/1918
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
55866
Welsh Regiment
14th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CATERPILLAR VALLEY CEMETERY, LONGUEVAL
VII. C. 26.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Redbourn memorials
Pre War
Born in 1886 in Redbourn, Herts. son of Charles and Emma (Smith) Burgess and christened on 15 Aug 1886 in Redbourn. He was living in High Street, Redbourn in 1901 as a labourer. Husband of Mrs. B. S. Bull (formerly Burgess) and lived in Hungerford, Berks.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in London formerly Private MS/3967 in 3rd Cavalry Ammunition Park, A.S.C. and transferred to the Welsh Regiment. Entered France on 8 Oct 1914 and was killed in action on the Somme.
Acknowledgments
Gareth Hughes, Malcolm Lennox
