Name
Charles William Drackett
28/05/1884
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/08/1918
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Guardsman
18969
Grenadier Guards
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
L'HOMME MORT BRITISH CEMETERY, ECOUST-ST. MEIN
1 A 2
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no family inscription on his headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
South Mimms Village Memorial
Pre War
Charles William DRACKETT was born in South Mimms, Hertfordshire, on 28th May 1884, son of Joseph Drackett, a Blacksmith and Maria Rachel Drackett (nee Warner). One of six children although two died in infancy.
1891 Census records Charles aged 7, at school, living with his parents, brothers George (9), William (4) and sister Emily (9 months) in Green Street, Shenley, Herts.
1901 Census, Charles (18) in employed as a General Farm Labourer, living with his parents, brothers George, William and sister Emily in South Mimms, Herts, his father is now recorded as a General Farm labourer. His mother Maria died in 1907, aged 50.
1911 Census, Charles, his widowed father, brother William and sister Emily are still living in South Mimms, Herts.
Wartime Service
Charles enlisted in the 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards, in September 1914, issued with the service number 18969. On completion of his training Charles arrived in France on 26th June 1915.
He was Killed in Action on 25th August 1918, aged 34, he is buried in L‘Homme Mort British Cemetery, Ecoust - St. Mein, France. Grave Ref; I. A. 2.
Additional Information
His effects of £21-02s-09d, pay owing and his war gratuity of £23, went to his father Joseph Drackett.
We believe his elder brother George was a Sergeant with the Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment) With the service number 7088, later 564054 when service numbers were standardised, George survived the war.
His younger brother William, a Lance Corporal in the Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment), died whilst a Prisoner of War on 9th June 1917.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Brian Lodge
