Name
Charles Alfred Coe
1871
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
12/11/1917
43
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
13193
Army Service Corps
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN
P. III. L. 12A.
France
Headstone Inscription
PEACE PERFECT PEACE
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials, Royal Mail Post Office Depot Memorial, Clifton Road, Cambridge
Pre War
Charles Alfred Coe was born in Bishop's Stortford in 1871 to George and Mary Ann Coe and they lived at Chapel Lane, Bishop's Stortford on the 1871 Census, when he was 3 weeks old. They later lived at Back Row in 1881 and Middle Row in 1891, when Charles was working as a Coal Porter. He enlisted into the Essex Regiment on 28 October 1892 at Warley, and served in the South African campaign, finally being discharged on 11 February 1905.
He married Beatrice Burton on 19 February 1907 in Cambridge and his son Ernest Charles was born on 8 May 1908 in Billericay, Essex. On the 1911 Census, he was living with wife Beatrice and child Ernest, aged 2, at 5 Urban Terrace, Brentwood, Essex and working as a postman and had moved to at 47 Richmond Road, Cambridge on enlistment.
Wartime Service
He enlisted on 28 June 1915 into the Army Service Corps when he was 44 years old. He left Southampton on the SS Lydia on 19 July 1915. arrived in Le Havre the following day and was posted to 16 Labour Co, Rouen. He was deprived of 2 days pay on 22 July 1916 for malingering, i.e. reporting sick without a cause, but was admitted to hospital with Coryza (Upper respiratory infection) on 25 July 1916 and discharged to duty on 12 August 1916. He had leave from 15 to 24 January 1917 but was back in hospital with bronchitis from the end of June to 4 July 1917 and eventually died from an aneurism of the aorta on 12 November the same year.
Additional Information
His widow received a pension of 20s 5d a week for herself and her child effective from 10 June 1918. She also received a war gratuity of £10 10s and pay owing of £6 5s 6d. In addition, there was a payment of £12 10s 10d for their child, Ernest.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
