Name
Charles Julian Batten
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
505856
Hertfordshire Yeomanry
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Charles Julian Batten, as he was recorded in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour and the Absent Voter Records, was baptised Julius Charles Batten, and was recorded as such in the Military Records.
He was born in the Autumn of 1897 at Abbots Langley. His parents Charles and Amy (nee Lunnon) had two sons and a daughter. Charles (senior) worked as a Carter and the family lived at 8 Asylum Road in 1911. He had been employed as a Coachman Domestic, and lived at Kings Langley on the Village East Side in 1901.
Charles (junior) was recorded in November 1915 in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour for the first time, and was recorded each month throughout the War serving with the Herts Yeomanry Dragoons.
At the outbreak of War the Herts Yeomanry was a Territorial Unit, but when War was declared many men volunteered for Imperial Service overseas. The Yeomanry was mobilised in August 1914, and in January 1915 the force embarked for Egypt, and was first in action at Gallipoli where it served as dismounted cavalry, fighting as infantrymen. At the end of that ill-fated campaign the Yeomanry moved back to Egypt, and was split into four Squadrons, which individually saw service in Palestine, Egypt and Mesopotamia. It is uncertain which Squadron Charles was posted to.
He was recorded in the Absent Voter Records in Autumn 1918, Spring 1919 and Autumn 1919, still serving with the Herts Yeomanry, and gave his home address at Asylum Road, Abbots Langley.
Charles Julian Batten survived the War.
Additional Information
Formerly service numbers 2618 & 105856
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
