Name
Charles Cecil Littlechild
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/09/1918
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
654213
5th Canadian Mounted Rifles Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
IV. F. 23.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon, St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon, Not on the Potters Bar memorials
Pre War
Born on 23 Nov 1896 in Potter’s Bar, Middlesex son of William and Mary Littlechild and living in 12 Middle Road, East Barnet in 1911.
The whole family emigrated by sailing from Southampton to Portland, Maine on 3 April 1913 on the Ascania and settled in Goderich, Ontario, Canada.
Wartime Service
Enlisted on 31 Dec 1915 at Goderich, Ontario. While taking part with his battalion during attack on Monchy on 26 Sep he was severely wounded in the abdomen by shrapnel from an enemy shell. His wounds were dressed and he was taken to a field Ambulance and evacuated to No. 1 South African General Hospital, Abbeville where he died next day.
Additional Information
Only possibility but no connection with Hoddesdon discovered.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
