Name
Charles Joseph Guthrie
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/05/1915
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
R/8162
King's Royal Rifle Corps
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Panel 32-33
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin
Pre War
He was the son of Mrs Elizabeth Guthrie of ‘Ben Venue’, 40 Brampton Park Road, Hitchin. He was born in Isleworth in Middlesex, but enlisted in Hitchin.
Wartime Service
Charles was given the Corps Number R/8162 and posted to the 1st Battalion, which was part of the 6th Brigade in the 2nd Division of the I Corps of the 1st Army. He was serving in the K.R.R.C. by December 1914 and may have been a regular soldier. He was killed in action in France.
His death coincides with the Battle of Festubert around Richebourg when violent fighting took place all day. The 1st Battalion of the K.R.R.C. were in trenches about a quarter of a mile north of the infamous ‘Quadrilateral’.
He has no known grave, but is remembered on Panels 32 & 33 of the Le Touret Memorial to the Missing in France.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
