Name
Charles Joseph John King Deakin
1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/07/1916
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
16th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
DOULLENS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION NO.1
II. A. 5.
France
Headstone Inscription
HIS LIFE WAS FINE HIS DEATH GLORIOUS
UK & Other Memorials
Aldenham School Memorial, Aldenham, Solicitors & Articled Clerks Mem. Holborn, London, Cross, Market Drayton, Shropshire
Pre War
Charles Joseph John King Deakin born in 1890 in Bow & Bromley, London. He was educated in Margate and at Aldenham School.
He was the
only son of the late Charles Frank Deakin (Brewer) and Ellen Louise (nee Harbour).
He became an Articled Clerk.
Wartime Service
Sometime after the outbreak of war he enlisted in 16th (Public Schools) Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment.
There is a record of him as Sergeant, serial number 66. However he gained a commission n 17 May 1915 and went to France with his Regiment on 17 Nov 1915. The battalion took part in the first day of the Somme and it is probable that he was evacuated from the front on the 1 Jul 1916 and he died of his wounds the next day. He lies in Doullens Communal Cemetery Extension No 1.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Tony James
