Name
Charles William Dumpleton
1885
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/11/1914
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
7983
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star (with Clasp & Roses), British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LE TOURET MEMORIAL
Panel 10 and 11.
France
Headstone Inscription
NA
UK & Other Memorials
St John the Baptist Church Memorial, Aldbury, Aldbury Peace Memorial Institute Memorial, Aldbury, Berkhamsted Town Memorial
Pre War
Charles William Dumpleton was born in 1885 in Aldbury, nr Berkhamsted, Herts, the son of Francis and Lucy Dumpleton, and baptised on 7 June 1885 in Aldbury. He was one of eight children.
On the 1891 Census the family were living at Malting Lane, Aldbury where his father was working as a farm servant and his mother as a straw plaiter. They remained there in 1901 at which time his father was a shepherd on a farm and Charles was an agricultural labourer. By 1911 Charles was living at Pendley Stables, Tring and working as a groom.
His parents later lived at 70 Ellesmere Road, Berkhamsted.
Wartime Service
Charles enlisted in Berkhamsted and joined the 1st Bedfordshire Regiment, serving in France from 16 August 1914, which suggests he was a serving soldier at the outbreak of war.
Within a week they were fighting in the Battle of Mons and a few days later, the Battle of Le Cateau, followed by the First Battle of the Aisne in September and the Battle of La Bassee a month later.
He was killed in action on 7 November 1914 at the First Battle of Ypres. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial, France.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £5 and pay owing of £7 7s 11d. His mother received a pension of 8s 5d a week.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild
