Name
Charles William Lawrence
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/10/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
4702
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CONTAY BRITISH CEMETERY, CONTAY
IV. C. 13.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford, Not on the Brent Pelham memorials
Pre War
Born in Brent Pelham, son of George Lawrence and Mary Ann (nee Coxall). Birth registered Q2 1896 in Bishops Stortford.
In 1901, living with parents next door to the shop in Brent Pelham. In 1911, living at Black Hall and employed as a labourer at Black Hall Farm.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford as a private in the Hertfordshire Regiment. War memorial indicates that he was in the 1st battalion.
This battalion took part in the capture of the Schwaben Redoubt, near Thiepval, on 14th October 1916. The Hertford Mercury reported that shot by a sniper. Charles William Lawrence died of wounds (SDITGW) three or four days later.
Additional Information
Private (CWGC & SDITGW) Corporal (On War Memorial)
Acknowledgments
Dr Stephen Bratt, Jonty Wild
