Name
LANCELOT PHILIP CHARLES
1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/11/1916
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Company Serjeant Major
2141
Honourable Artillery Company
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VARENNES MILITARY CEMETERY
I. E. 40.
France
Headstone Inscription
"MAKE THEM TO BE NUMBERED WITH THY SAINTS IN GLORY EVERLASTING"
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Cheshunt Memorials, Not on the Waltham Cross Memorials, Malvern Collage Memorial, Great Malvern
Pre War
Lancelot Philip CHARLES was born in East Barnet, Hertfordshire, in 1896, son of Frederick Charles a Merchants Clerk and Julia Charles.
Lancelot was Baptised on 24th April 1896, in the Parish of Chipping Barnet, Herts.
Lancelot (5), his parents, sister Margaret (7), brothers Harold (2) and Geoffrey (2), are recorded as visitors at widow Margaret Stern, of Little Grove, Cat Hill, South Side, East Barnet, Herts, on the night of the 1901 Census.
Lancelot attended Malvern Collage between 1910 & 1913, he was in House No. 6.
1911 Census records Lancelot aged 15, a student boarder at Malvern Collage, Great Malvern, Worcestershire.
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of war Lancelot travelled to Armoury House, City Road, London, the Head Quarters of the Honourable Artillery Company, (HAC), to enlist as Private 2141 Lancelot Philip Charles, he soon progressed through the ranks to Company Sergeant Major.
He arrived in France on 23rd January 1915, seeing action on the Western Front. Lancelot was wounded in action on 13th November 1916, during the Battle of the Somme, and taken to No. 11 Casualty Clearing Station, Varennes, where he died the following day the 14th, aged 20 years. (Battle of the Somme 1st July – 18th November 1916). It is possible the reason he rose so quickly through the ranks is he was possible in the Officer Training Corps at Malvern Collage.
Additional Information
His effects of £2-15s-02d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £16-10s-00d, went to his mother Julia.
His Head stone inscription “MAKE THEM TO BE NUMBERED WITH THY SAINTS IN GLORY EVERLASTING“ was requested by his mother Julia Charles, of 153 High Street, Waltham Cross, Herts.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
