Name
Charles Frederick Fearn
1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/07/1915
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
4th Bn. Attd. 2nd Bn. Royal Munster Fusiliers
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY
II. J. 10.
France
Headstone Inscription
AGE 19
UK & Other Memorials
Malvern College WW1 War Memorial
Pre War
Charles Frederick Fearn was born in 1896 in Chile, South America, the son of Charles and Emily Fearn. His father was a nitrate manufacturer.
On the 1911 Census his parents were living in Cuckfield, Sussex but he was away at school at Malvern College, in Great Malvern, Worcestershire, which he attended from 1911 to 1914.
Wartime Service
He enlisted into the Inniskilling Fusiliers and served as a 2nd Lieutenant in France from 14 May 1915.
He was attached to the Munster Fusiliers and was killed in action on 4 July 1915, age 19.
Additional Information
His father, Mr Charles Fearn, Speen Manor, Newbury, Berks. ordered his headstone inscription: "AGE 19", Charles received his pay owing of £42 5s 1d.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
