Name
Charles/Charley Montague
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
26/10/1917
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
250512
London Regiment *1
2nd/3rd (City of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 148 to 150.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour
Pre War
Son of Emily Louisa (nee SMITH) and the late Abraham MONTAGU.
His parents married 15 March 1890 at All Saints, Notting Hill, London. Abraham died 19 October 1910 in Watford aged 64, and was buried 24 October in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford. Emily remarried 1919 in the Watford district to Alfred M MOORE.
Charles was born 1894 in Watford, and resided in Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 6 he lived in Watford, with his parents and five siblings. On the 1911 Census, an auctioneer’s junior clerk aged 16, he still lived in Watford, with his widowed mother and four siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted at Edward Street, London; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 6 January 1915, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
There is an article about and a Death announcement for Charles in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 17 November 1917; plus an In Memoriam in the issue dated 26 October 1918. Unfortunately, Charles’ Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
*1 More correctly London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers).
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
