Name
Charles Burgess
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/07/1916
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
25972
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn., attached 10th Bn. Worcestershire Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
SERRE ROAD CEMETERY No.2
XXXVIII. D. 3/4.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon,
Stanstead Abbotts Village Memorial
Pre War
Born 1892 in Hoddesdon son of James and Eliza Burgess and living in 7 Burford Terrace, Hoddesdon in 1911. Husband of Evelyn Louisa Burgess of Park Road, Stanstead Abbotts, Hertfordshire.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in the Bedfordshire Regt, attached to 10th Batt. Worcestshire Regt. Took part in 1st Battle of the Somme, in assaults on Ancre Heights and Pozieres, which was taken and then lost in German counter attacks.
Acknowledgments
Terry Collins Malcolm Lennox
