Name
Charles Budd
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/06/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
4698
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GORRE BRITISH AND INDIAN CEMETERY
I. B. 20.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Buntingford Town Memorial,
Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Born in 1890 to George and Sarah Budd the family lived in Knight Hill, Westmill. In the 1911 Census he is shown as living with his parents and one brother in Thrift Cottage, Westmill. Charles is listed as a farm labourer. His attestation papers signed in 1915 give his and his families address as Newtown Buntingford.
Wartime Service
He enlisted at Hertford. He was killed in action on 19th June 1916.
On the Commonwealth War Graves Commission web site it says he was attached to the 254th Tunnelling Coy. Royal Engineers.
Acknowledgments
Kate Thompson
Jonty Wild, Carol Emery, Jonty Wild
