Name
Charles Cavill
1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/04/1917
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
12214
Bedfordshire Regiment
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 5.
France
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
St John the Baptist Church Memorial, Aldenham.
St John the Baptist Church Roll of Honour, Aldenham.
Letchmore Heath Village Memorial,
Hatfield Heath Village Memorial, Essex
Pre War
Charles Cavill was born in 1891, in Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex, son of William Cavill (a Farm worker) and Drusilla Cavill (nee Rogers) one of six children, John (B 1886), Ellen (B 1889), Annie (B 1893), Alice (B 1897), and George (B 1901).
1891 Census records Charles aged 8 months, living with his parents, brother John and sister Ellen, at Parvalls, Ardleigh End, Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex.
1901 Census records Charles aged 10, living with his parents, and four siblings at Parvill’s Cottages, Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex.
By 1911, Charles had moved to Letchmore Heath, Herts, where he was working as a Horseman on a Farm and boarding with Arthur and Lillian Prior and their three young sons.
Wartime Service
Charles enlisted at Watford; Herts, posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment with the service number 12214 and Stationed at Ludgershall Barrack’s in Wiltshire.
Charles and his Battalion left Ludgershall, Wilts on 30 July 1915, by train for Southampton, where they boarded the S.S. Empress Queen for Le Havre, France, arriving at 7-30am, the following morning, they disembarked and marched to No. 5 Rest Camp.
Charles and his Battalion arrived at the front on 10 August 1915, (Locre). The following day they started digging Reserve Trenches about 1 mile from Kennel, under the instructions of the Engineers.
Charles was Killed in Action on 23 April 1917, he has no known grave and is Commemorated on the Arras Memorial to the Missing. Bay 5.
Additional Information
The value of his effects was £6-16s-9d, Pay Owing and £12-10s-0d, War Gratuity which went to his father William.
His mother Drusilla was awarded a dependents pension of 5/- a week from 6 November 1918.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
