Name
Charles Hubert Loader
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/06/1917
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
G/65485
Royal Fusiliers *1
26th (County of London)(Service) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VOORMEZEELE ENCLOSURE NO.3
Plot XIII, Row F, Grave 19.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, Watford Printers Memorial, Watford, Sun Engraving Company Memorial, Watford
Pre War
Son of Mary Evangelina (nee PARISH) and the late William LOADER; husband of Maude Jemima SALMON (formerly LOADER, nee TANNER) of Guildford, Surrey.
His parents married 25 December 1882 at St Martin’s, Sandford, Oxon. William died 1898 in the Guildford district aged 39, and was buried 16 November at St Nicholas’, Guildford; Mary died 1954 in the Surrey South West district aged 95.
Charles was born 16 August 1890 in Guildford, and baptised 28 September 1890 at St Nicholas’, Guildford. He married 1 August 1914 at St Nicholas’, Guildford. Maude remarried 19 January 1924 at Christ Church, Guildford, to Frank Salmon, and died 24 January 1962 in Chatham, Kent, aged 68.
On the 1891 Census, aged 7 months he lived in Guildford, with his parents and four siblings. On the 1901 Census, aged 10 he still lived in Guildford, with his widowed mother and four siblings. On the 1911 Census, an apprentice printer aged 20, he still lived in Guildford, with his widowed mother and one sibling.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford, and was formerly Private 32993 East Surrey Regiment.
He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
Unfortunately, Charles’ Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
*1 Believed more correctly, (County of London) Bn. London Regiment (Bankers).
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
