Name
Charles Hearne
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/11/1918
35
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
429348
Labour Corps
667th Agricultural Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
RICKMANSWORTH (CHORLEYWOOD ROAD) CEMETERY
LL.4.12
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial,
St. Mary’s Church Memorial, Rickmansworth,
Not on the Chorleywood memorials
Pre War
Born 1883 The Swillett, Chorleywood, Charles was the son of William and Fanny Hearne. This was possibly Fanny’s second marriage.
About 1875 they moved to one of the Duke of Bedford’s cottages, Old House Farm, Chenies, and were still there in 1881 with their five children. The 1891 census found the family at the Swillett, William being an Agricultural Labourer. In 1901, Charles age 18, a Grocer’s Assistant, was boarding with Hannah Brown, a Widow, and her children in Rickmansworth High Street.
Charles married Mabel Ellen Rollings in Eaton Bray on the 1st of April 1907 and in 1911 they were living Bury Lane, Rickmansworth with their son Percy, born 28th of October 1907, along with a Boarder Thomas Gander. Charles was a grocer’s porter
When he enlisted on the 18th of May 1917 Charles was described as a Horse Keeper and living Meadow Cottage, 62 Ebury Road Rickmansworth.
Mabel remarried in 1922 to John L Wilson in Leighton Buzzard and their son Esmond L J Wilson was born in 1923. On the 1939 Register they were still living at 62 Ebury Road.
Recorded as enlisting in Watford.
Wartime Service
Formerly No 291124 11th Battalion the Norfolk Regiment but was found unfit for service and assigned to the 667th Agricultural Coy Labour Corps (429348)
Died from the Spanish Flu in Colchester and was buried in the same grave as his father (died 1912) on the 11th of November 1918.
Additional Information
Charles is buried in a non-CWGC grave.
Acknowledgments
Tanya Britton, Our Village in the Great War, Mike Collins
