Name
Charles Henry Potter
1889
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/10/1918
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
8822
Coldstream Guards
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TERLINCTHUN BRITISH CEMETERY, WIMILLE
V. C. 13.
France
Headstone Inscription
WHILE THE LIGHT LASTS I SHALL REMEMBER AND WHEN DARKNESS FALLS
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials
Pre War
Charles Henry Potter was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire in 1889 to Joseph and Annie Potter. On the 1911 Census he was already a serving soldier in the 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards , living at Ramilies Barracks, Aldershot. He married Gertrude Stone in 1915 in Bishop's Stortford and they had a child Leonard Charles. They were living at 38 Rye Street, Bishop's Stortford on his enlistment. She later lived at 19 Wharf Road, Bishop's Stortford.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Birmingham and served with the 4th Bn Coldstream Guards in France from 12 August 1914. He died of wounds received in action at the 8th Stationary Hospital, France which was at Wimereux from March 1915 to March 1919.
Additional Information
His widow received a war gratuity of £27 and pay owing of £32 13s 9d. She also received a pension of £1 2s 11d a week from 7 April 1919. His wife, Mrs G L Potter of 38 Rye Street, Bishops Stortford, Herts. ordered his headstone inscription: "WHILE THE LIGHT LASTS I SHALL REMEMBER AND WHEN DARKNESS FALLS.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
