HALL, Charles Joseph

Basra Memorial, IraqCredit: CWGC

Private
5th Battalion
Hampshire Regiment

Charles was born 1892 in Newport to Mrs Nellie PARSONS of Southcliffe Cottage, Undercliff, Niton. Both the 1901 & 1911 has Charles living at 70 South Street in Newport.

Charles, aged 25, was listed as Missing Presumed Killed on the 25th January 1917 & is commemorated on the Basra Memorial in Iraq with 40,633 of his comrades.

The memorial originally stood at the side of the Shatt al-Arab River on the edge of the city but was moved in the late 1990s by Saddam Hussein’s regime into the desert.

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.