Name
Charles Kitchener
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/10/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
60366
Royal Fusiliers *1
11th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 8 C 9 A and 16 A
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Stanstead Abbotts Village Memorial
Pre War
Christened 2nd February 1899 and lived in Stanstead Abbotts. Mothers name Ada.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in Essex Regt as Private 4009. Transferred to Royal Fusiliers City of London Regt 11th Battalion. Unit went to France in July 1915. Fought at Somme from July 1916, at Montauban, Delville Wood, Thiepval Ridge, Ancre Heights. He was killed as the Battalion were leaving the trenches to go to billets in Albert, he was one of 51 casualties suffered whilst leaving the front line.
Additional Information
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London)
Bn. London Regiment (Finsbury Rifles).
Acknowledgments
Terry Collins
