MOREY, Charles William

Credit: CWGC

Private

11th Battalion

Hampshire Regiment

Charles was born 1892 in Carisbrooke to Charles Henry & Mary Ann (nee PRICE) MOREY who were living at 'Glencoe', Gunville Road in Carisbrooke around the time of Charles' death.

Charles was Killed in Action, aged 25, on the 27th of December 1917 & buried in Section I Row B Grave 1 at Villers-Faucon Communal Cemetery Extension in France. He rests beneath a Commission Headstone alongside 458 of his First World War comrades, 144 of whom remain unidentified.

Charles is also remembered on the County & Carisbrooke 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.