Name
Charles Warby
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/09/1914
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
50164
Royal Field Artillery
10th Bty.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
British War Medal and Victory Medal
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
FYZABAD CANTONMENT CEMETERY
Plot B. Grave 1015.
India
Headstone Inscription
Researched - none recorded
UK & Other Memorials
St Leonard's Church Lychgate, Sandridge
Pre War
Charles Warby was born in Sandridge , Hertfordshire in 1887 to Charles Warby – a railway labourer and Mary nee Webb.
He was one of eight children, 6 sons and 2 daughters .
Charles was baptised on 1st February 1891 at the Parish Church St. Leonards , Sandridge.
In 1901 Charles was living with his parents and four older siblings in Sandridge Village, his father was Railway Navvy and in 1911 Charles was a farm labourer, aged 13 , living with his parents and two of his older sisters in East Lane , Sandridge.
He enlisted in the Royal Field Artillery on 20/3/1908 20/3/1908 at Hounslow , London before the start of the war and his profession at time of enlistment was labourer.
He enlisted on 20/3/1908 at Hounslow , London
Officially recorded as born in St Albans (more accurately Sandridge) and enlisted in Hounslow, Middx.
Wartime Service
He died in a railway car en-route from Barrackpore Hospital to Lucknow Hospital, India.
Additional Information
£7 was paid to father on 29.9.15 and a further £7 on 19.8.19
Acknowledgments
Sarah Burns
Gareth Hughes
