Sydney Charter - St Helen - Colne, Cambridgeshire - Specific Veteran Memorials on Waymarking.com

Memorial tablet to Sydney Charter, killed in action in Givenchy in WWI, in St Helen's church, Colne. It consists of a white marble tablet on a black marble backboard.

The inscription reads -
IN EVER LOVING MEMORY OF
RICHARD CHARTER
WHO DIED 28TH JUNE 1909
ALSO OF
SYDNEY
THE BELOVED SON OF THE ABOVE
AND FANNY CHARTER, AGED 19 YEARS
WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION AT GIVENCHY
DURING THE GREAT WAR ON THE 27TH
DECEMBER 1916, WHILST DOING HIS DUTY
IN THE 13TH TRENCH MORTAR BATTERY.
HE WAS ATTACHED TO THE 14TH ROYAL
WARWICKSHIRE REGT. AND PREVIOUSLY
TO THE HUNTS CYCLIST BATTALION.
INTERRED IN GORNE (SIC) CEMETERY, FRANCE
IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH

Name: Sydney Charter
Birth Place: Colne, Hunts
Residence: Colne
Death Date: 27 Dec 1916
Death Place: France and Flanders
Enlistment Place: Huntingdon
Rank: Private
Regiment: Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Battalion: 14th Battalion
Regimental Number: 30194
Type of Casualty: Killed in action
Theatre of War: Western European Theatre
Comments: Formerly 1223, Hunts Cyc. Battn. (visit link)

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