DEXTER, Charles

Credit: Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Private

16th Battalion

Royal Warwickshire Regiment

Charles was born 1891 in Atherstone, Warwickshire to Arthur & Elizabeth DEXTER of Nelson Yard, Long Street in Atherstone. In 1915 at the Newport Registry Office Charles married Alice Maud LEGG.

Charles, aged 25, was listed as Missing Presumed Killed in Action on the 26th of September 1916. His body was never found or identified & so Charles is commemorated by the Commission on the Thiepval Memorial to the missing on The Somme in France, together with over 72,000 of his First World War comrades.

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

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetery

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.