Name
Charles Chalkley
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/05/1915
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
4/5723
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GUARDS CEMETERY, WINDY CORNER, CUINCHY
IV. H. 14.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, Holy Saviour Church War Memorial, Radcliffe Rd., Hitchin, St Mary's Church Roll of Honour, Hitchin, St Faith's Church War Memorial, Walsworth
Pre War
On the St. Faith's Church War Memorial, he is mentioned with the initial ‘G’, but it is almost certainly the same man. He was born and was resident in Hitchin, enlisted in Hatfield.
Wartime Service
Charles was allocated Regimental Number 4/5723. He served in the 2nd Battalion and was killed in action.
At the time of his death the Battalion occupied trenches in the Indian Village sector to the east of Bethune and north east of Festubert. The ground was badly waterlogged and in the attacks, wounded men drowned in the mud and water in the trenches. In a week's fighting in the trenches 50% of the Battalion were killed or wounded.
He is buried in the Guards Cemetery, Cuinchy, France in Plot 4, Row H, Grave 14.
Acknowledgments
Adrian Dunne, Cilla Dyson David C Baines, Jonty Wild
