Name
Charles Lake
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Pirton School Memorial
Biography
Charles appears on the School War Memorial, confirming that he attended the school. Parish records suggest only one man of this name who could have served, and he was born on May 17th 1882 to George and Emma Lake (née Parkins). He would have been thirty-two at the outbreak of war. Baptism and census records list nine children but by 1911 one had died. The children were; Herbert Lindsay (b 1880), Charles (b 1882), Alice Emma (b 1883), Leonard (b 1885), Anne Elizabeth (b 1888), Ralph Joseph (b 1889), Frank (b 1893), Reginald (1895) and Philip (b c1904). His brothers Herbert, Joseph (Ralph) and Reginald also served and survived.
Acknowledgments
Text from the book ‘The Pride of Pirton’ by Jonty Wild, Tony French & Chris Ryan used with author's permission
