Name
Charles Stracey
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/02/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
36464
Princess Charlotte of Wales’ (Royal Berkshire) Regiment
6th Bn
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 11 D.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Sawbridgeworth Town Memorial, Great St Mary’s Church Memorial, Sawbridgeworth, Not listed on the Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Charles was born in Sawbridgeworth in November 1894 and was baptised in January 1895. He lived with his family at 2 Bell Yard, Bell Street, and in 1911 was recorded as a ‘General Farm Labourer’.
Charles was living in Sawbridgeworth when he enlisted in Hertford.
Wartime Service
He was formerly 5706 in the Hertfordshire Regiment, meaning that he enlisted after 1st November 1915. he may well have been conscripted in 1916. Charles was later transferred to the 6th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment.
Charles’ date of death is given as 17 February 1916. On that day, the Battalion were involved in a major attack towards Miraumont and a feature called ‘Hill 130’. They formed a defensive flank to the left which allowed the capture of another feature called ‘Boom Ravine’. It was here that Charles was killed. He has no known grave, his body was lost and he is commemorated on Thiepval Memorial. He was aged 22.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Douglas Coe
