Name
Charles Henry Mottram
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/04/1915
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
14935
Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
FIRST D.C.L.I. CEMETERY, THE BLUFF
C. 8.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Puckeridge memorials
Pre War
His father, Charles William was a master boot/shoe Maker and had a business in Puckeridge. Charles, was born in 1895 or 1896.
Possibly due to the relationship with his step-mother, he enlisted in the Royal Regiment of Artillery on he 11 March 1912 with the Regimental number 69368. With the outbreak of the Great War he enlisted in the army.
Wartime Service
Originally, he signed up for the Royal Horse Artillery when he was underage. That was soon discovered and he was discharged on the 30 March that year.
He later re-enlisted, this time joining the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry and being posted to the 1st Battalion.
Additional Information
Parents were living in Puckeridge, Hertfordshire at the time of his death.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Paul Johnson, Christine Mottram Nordan
