ATTRILL, Charles

Tyne Cot Cemetery, BelgiumCredit: Unknown

Company Serjeant Major
2nd Battalion
Hampshire Regiment

Charles was born 1887 in Newport to Alfred & Eliza. In 1913 he married Mabel Edith STUBBS at Newport Registry Office. Mabel’s family lived at 16 Trafalgar Road.

A local lad, Charles, attended Barton School & St Pauls Church on Staplers Road. He is commemorated on both their War Memorials.

Charles, aged 31, was Killed in Action on the 28th September 1918 & received a Battlefield Burial. His body was later exhumed from an unmarked grave, identified by his Identity Disc & reburied in Section LIV Row F Grave 15 at Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium, with 11,960 of his Brothers at Arms.

Charles is also remembered on the County & Newport Borough War Memorials.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.