Name
Charles Izzard
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/11/1916
35
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
18505
Bedfordshire Regiment
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 2C
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin War Memorial, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin, Not on the Letchworth memorials
Pre War
His mother lived at The Buildings, Queen Street, Hitchin. He was born in Hitchin and resided there.
He was employed by Mr Chapman of Grove Road, Hitchin and before joining up played for the Union Jack Football Club. He was married Lizzie Izzard, of 13, Cromwell Green, Letchworth, Herts. and they had four young children and lived in Gascoynes Yard, Hitchin.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Bedford and was allocated Regimental Number 18505 and posted to the 4th Battalion of the Regiment.
He was initially reported as missing then as having been killed in action in France. On the day of his death, the Battalion took part in an attack towards Beaucourt on the ground between the River Ancre and Beaumont Hamel facing north east. The German trenches were approximately 200 yards distant. There were over 100 casualties in the Battalion on that day.
He has no known grave and is remembered on Pier and Face 2C of the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing in France.
Additional Information
His younger brother had served with the Hertfordshire Regiment, but was invalided out suffering from shellshock.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, David C Baines, Jonty Wild
