Name
Charles Edward Austin
29/03/1885
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/05/1917
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
40621
Norfolk Regiment
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
FEUCHY BRITISH CEMETERY
II. E. 1.
France
Headstone Inscription
SOON TO FAITHFUL WARRIORS COMETH REST FROM HIS WIFE SHEILA & JOYCE
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Redbourn memorials
Pre War
Born on 29 Mar 1885 in Redbourn, Herts. son of Eliza Austin and baptised on 20 Dec 1885 in Redbourn.
He married Joyce Kate Blain in 1910 and lived in 14 Ladysmith Road, St Albans as a bricklayer.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at St Albans and died of wounds at No 37 Field Ambulance, France
Additional Information
Soldier's Effects register shows died of wounds at No 37 Field Ambulance, France. War Gratuity of £4-0-0 to widow, Joyce. Sole legatee.
Acknowledgments
Gareth Hughes
Gareth Hughes, Malcolm Lennox
