Name
Charles Arthur Child
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/10/1918
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
14190
Norfolk Regiment
9th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BELLICOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
VII. B. 7.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Matthew’s Church Memorial, Oxhey, Wesleyan (Bushey & Oxhey Methodist) Church Memorial, Oxhey, Not on the Bushey memorials, Not on the Watford memorials (*1)
Pre War
Son of Francis Henry and Alice (nee HARRISON) CHILD; husband of Florence HARRIS (formerly CHILD, nee PARROTT) of Watford.
His parents married 23 November 1889 at St Matthew’s, Oxhey, Herts. Alice died 1907 in Watford aged 38, and was buried 4 December in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; Francis died 1928 in Watford aged 62, and was buried 14 November, also in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
Charles was born 26 July 1892 in Bushey, Herts, and baptised 2 August 1892 at St Matthew’s, Oxhey. His father was a bricklayer and had seven children, one of whom died during childhood.
On the 1901 Census, aged 8 he lived in Oxhey, with his parents and four siblings. By 1911, Charles was eighteen and was living at home with his father, a widower, and with his four siblings. He was employed as a bricklayer’s labourer.
Wartime Service
Charles enlisted in Westminster with the Norfolk Regiment and served as Lance Corporal 14190 with the 9th Battalion on the Western Front.
On 12 January 1918 he married Florence Parrott in the parish of Kensal Rise in London.
He was killed in action a few months later on 8 October 1918, aged 26.
He is remembered with honour at Bellicourt British Cemetery in France. He is also commemorated on the memorial at Bushey & Oxhey Methodist Church and at St Matthew’s Church, Oxhey.
His pension record identifies his dependant as Florence of 30, St Margaret’s Road, Kensal Rise, NW10 and shows a £5 Grant paid 29/11/18 and pension of 13/9 from 28/04/19.
Florence subsequently married Edward Harris of Kensal Green on 23 May 1920 and they made their home at 3 Elm Grove, Watford.
Additional Information
*1 At present we do not know if his connection through his wife is his only connection to Watford.
Acknowledgments
Andrew Palmer
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild, Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH online via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
