Name
Charles Martin
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/11/1916
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
4593
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LONDON CEMETERY AND EXTENSION, LONGUEVAL
10.H.30.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Ware Town Memorial, St Mary’s Church Memorial, Ware, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Born in 1885 in Ware, Hertfordshire son of George and Emma Martin and was living at 9 Princes Street, Ware in 1901 and 1911 when he was a master labourer.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Hertford, entered France on 10 Jul 1915 and was killed in action.
He was escorting some German prisoners from the front at the Battle of the Ancre when he was shot by a German officer prisoner who had managed to hide his revolver. The German officer did not survive.
Acknowledgments
Jo Bayley
Malcolm Lennox, Jonty Wild
