Name
Charles Edward Andrews
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/05/1917
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
9708
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
IV.C.44
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial, St. Peter’s Church Memorial, Mill End, St. Peter's C & E Primary School Memorial, Mill End, Not on the West Hyde memorials
Pre War
Charles was born in West Hyde on 24th July 1893 and was baptised there on 24th of September. His parents were Thomas and Eleanor Mary Andrews his father being a Labourer on the Watercress Beds. Thomas and Eleanor had a large family – eight children on the 1901 census when they were living in Church Lane, Mill End.
By 1911 Charles was already in the army recorded as a Musician living Stanhope Lines, Aldershot.
Recorded as enlisting in Watford.
Wartime Service
The 1st Beds were in action at the second battle of the Scarpe fought in torrential rain and snow between the 22nd and 24th of April 1917. Their objective was to attack and capture part of the German trenches from the Vimy-Avion railway to Souchez. They encountered exceptionally strong enemy defences and the attack was unsuccessful.
Charles died of wounds in Boulogne.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Mike Collins
