Name
Charles David Oakley
10/ 06/1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/07/1917
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
24734
Grenadier Guards
3rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 9 and 11.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial in Belgium to the missing.
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the South Mimms memorials
Pre War
Charles David OAKLEY was born in South Mimms, Hertfordshire, on 10th June 1892, son of Charles Oakley, a Labourer and Emma Oakley (nee Roberts). One of their eight children.
His parents married on 17th February 1879, at the Church of St. Giles, South Mimms, Herts.
He was Baptised with his younger brother John, on 15th April 1894, at the Church of St Giles, South Mimms, Herts.
1901 Census records Charles Jr. aged 9, living with parents, three brothers and sister Florence (3), in South Mimms Village, Herts.
1911 Census records Charles Jr. aged 19, he is recorded as a Gentleman’s Servant, living with his parent, brother John (18) and sister Florence (13), at Mill Corner Monken Hadley, Herts. His cousins Amy Oakley (6) and Harold Oakley (3) are living with the family.
Charles Jr. married Rosetta Jane Harrison of New Barnet, Herts, the daughter of John and Sarah Harrison, in the early part of 1914, in New Barnet, Herts. They went on the have two children Queenie May born in November 1914 and Charles Leonard born in March 1916.
Wartime Service
Charles Jr. enlisted at Barnet, Herts, into the Grenadier Guards, issued with the service number 24734.
On completion of his training Charles Jr. served with 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards on the Western Front. He was Killed in Action on 25th July 1917. He has no known grave; he is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial to the missing in Belgium. Panel 9.
Additional Information
Rosetta received a grant of £5, on 27th August 1917, and a widow’s pension of 22s/11d, (£1-02s-11d) a week from 11th February 1918, and his effects of £2-03s-02, pay owing and his war gratuity of £7-10s-00.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
