Name
Albert Charles
02/08/1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 10C. 10D. and 11A.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France, to the missing on the Somme.
UK & Other Memorials
London Colney Village Memorial, London Colney Roll of Honour, London Colney - incorrectly shown as survived
Pre War
Albert CHARLES was born in Worcester, Worcestershire, on 2nd
August 1891, son of Thomas Charles a Coachman and Eliza Charles (nee Chambers).
The younger of their three children.
1901 Census records Albert aged 9, living with his parents,
Sisters, Constance (1887 – 1907), and Mable (11) at 15 Lowndes Mews, St George,
Hanover Square, London. The family had a boarder Charles Goledge 19, a Stable
Helper.
1911 Census records Albert aged 19, a Warehouseman, living
with his parents, at 11 Grosvener Cottages, Belgravia, Chelsea, London.
Albert married Violet Mary Craven of Basford,
Nottinghamshire, the daughter of Richard Robson and Hannah Craven, at St John
the Baptist, Colwick, Nottinghamshire, on 18th March 1916.
The family later move to Medow View, London Colney, Herts.
Wartime Service
Albert enlisted in the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps
and issued with the service number 3760.
(The Inns of Court (OTC) provided basic officer training
before going on to be Commissioned).
He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant to the 1st/7th
(Robin Hood) Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment) on 15th
September 1915. He joined his Battalion in the field at Bienvillers, France on
24th June 1916. He was killed in Action on 1st July 1916,
during the diversionary attack on Gommecourt, part of the Battle of the Somme,
(Battle of the Somme 1st July to 18th November 1916).
He has no known grave he is commemorated on the Thiepval
Memorial, Somme, France, to the missing. Pier and Face 10C. !0D. and 11A.
Additional Information
His effects of £35-05s-00d, pay owing and his war gratuity
of £5, went to his widow Violet Mary Gaillard (Charles).
Violet remarried in July 1917, in Basford, Notts, to Gustave
Felix Gaillard, a doctor. Living at 42 Victoria Road, Netherfield, Notts.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
