Name
Charles Henry Bryant
1893
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/05/1915
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
3902
Royal Fusiliers
3rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 6 and 8.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Pre War
Charles Henry Bryant was born in Islington in 1893 to William Bryant, and Ellen Louisa (nee Ward), His parents had married in 1892.
Charles’ father died in 1894.
On the 1901 Census the family of Ellen Bryant (widow), Charles, and William (born 1895) were living at 8 Georges Street, Islington, Middx.
Charles mother married James Richard Pickard, at St Clement Barnsbury, London on 5 May 1901.
On the 1911 Census the family of James & Ellen Pickard, Charles (printer’s labourer) & William Bryant, James Pickard (born 1902), Ellen Pickard (born 1904), Joe Pickard (born 1905), Eliza (born 1903), Rose (born 1909) and Mabel (born 1910) were living at 22, Chauncey Street, Lower Edmonton, Middx.
Wartime Service
Charles enlisted in as Private 3902 in the 3rd Battalion Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment). Following his training, he went to France on 7 Mar 1915 to join the Battalion in the field at Ypres. He probably took part in the 2nd Battle of Ypres in its phases: Battle of St. Julien (24 April – 4 May), Battle of Frezenberg (8-13 May), Battle of Bellewaarde (24-25 May). Charles was wounded in one of the actions dying on 25 May 1915. He is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £3 and arrears of £2 0s 7d was shared between his step father James P Rickard and his mother Ellen.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
