Name
William Charles Banks
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/04/1918
30
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
45562
Royal Field Artillery
"C" Battery, 124th Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
IV. A. 17.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Christchurch Memorial, Little Heath, Potters Bar, Little Heath & Bentley Heath Memorial, Potters Bar, All Souls Chapel Book of Remembrance, Potters Bar
Pre War
Born in Potters Bar in 1887. Son of the late William Charles and Catherine Banks, of Potter's Bar, Middx.
In the 1901 census he was living with his widowed mother Catherine Banks and an older brother in Church Road, Potters Bar. Enlisted at London. In the 1911 census he was stationed in India with the 38th Battery, Royal Field Artillery.
Wartime Service
Landed in France 16 August 1914 (he could no longer be with the 38th Batteryas that was still in India). Later he was transferred to 124th Brigade which arrived in France at the end of July 1915.
Died of wounds. Possibly wounded during the Battle of the Ancre on 5 April 1918 and evacuated to one of the military hospitals in Abbeville.
Additional Information
Husband of Mrs. C. A. Banks, of 2 Ada Villas, Avenue Rd., Old Southgate, London. (He married Annie C Lester while on leave early in 1918)
Acknowledgments
Martin Cope
