Name
Charles Harold Corbett
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/05/1915
47
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POELCAPELLE BRITISH CEMETERY
LXI. B. 16.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath, Individual Plaque, St Andrew’s church, Church Aston, Newport, Shropshire.
Pre War
Born on 19 Aug 1867 in Aston Hall, Newport, Shropshire son of Henry and Henrietta Jane (King) Corbett. Educated at Haileybury College 1881-84.
He married Elise Gwendoline Massey of "St. Albans," Sunningdale, Berks in Ambala, India in Dec 1893. Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant on 10 Nov 1888, Lieutenant 25 Jun 1890, Captain 28 Feb 1897 and Major on 19 Nov 1904. Served in India in the Tirah Expedition 1897-98 and in South Africa 1900-02.
Wartime Service
The battalion landed at Boulogne in France on 16 Aug 1914. He was killed in action during the second battle of Ypres.
Additional Information
Major Charles Harold Corbett, 18 hussars (QMO) also has a memorial on the wall in St Andrew’s church, Church Aston, Newport, Shropshire. His family live a few yards away.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour, George D’Arcy
