Name
Charles Philip Arthur Falkner
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/11/1917
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
180387
Canadian Infantry
54th Bn., Central Ontario Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
NINE ELMS BRITISH CEMETERY
Plot VIII, Row D, Grave 17.
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour,
St Andrew's Church Memorial, Watford,
Salt Springs Island War Shrine, British Columbia, Canada
Pre War
Son of Charles Evelyn and the late Susanna Mafflyn (nee MURRELL) FALKNER.
His parents marriage is proving elusive. Susanna of Halton, Ontario, died February 1894 of pneumonia aged 31; Charles of Tzuhalem, British Columbia, died 7 April 1949 aged 81.
Charles was born 13 March 1892 in Acton, Ontario.
Wartime Service
He attested 21 December 1915 at Victoria, British Columbia: a carpenter aged 25, unmarried, 5’5″ tall, C of E; his next-of-kin his sister of British Columbia.
While on a working party in the forward area near Passchendaele at 11.30pm on October 28th 1917, he was hit in the head by shrapnel from an enemy shell. He was immediately given first aid, and taken to a dressing station and evacuated to No. 3 Australian Casualty Clearing Station where he died four days later of the wounds received.
Additional Information
There is a Death announcement for Charles in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 10 November 1917; and an article in the Daily Colonist [British Columbia] dated 1 December 1917.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
