BRISTOW Charles Henry. Private 579. 15th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Killed in action 7th May 1916, aged 25 years. Son of Henry and Mary A Bristow of 6 Cranwell Street, Lincoln, Lincs. Born Lincoln St Faith, Lincs, enlisted Birmingham, WAR and resident Lincoln, Lincs. His brother, Tom, was a civilian casualty in World War II. Commemorated FAUBOURG-D'AMIENS CEMETERY, ARRAS. I.B.25. / Lincoln "In Memoriam" / Lincoln City WM / Lincoln Constitutional Club / Lincoln Memory Book / Lincoln St Botolph
As a boy attended St. Botolph's Church Sunday and Day schools, and later became a Sunday school teacher and continued as such until he was 22 years of age, when owing to a business change, he removed to Birmingham. Whilst in Lincoln he was a draughtsman at Messrs Ruston, Proctor & Co. Ltd. On the outbreak of war deceased who was still at Birmingham, enlisted in the Birmingham City Battalion, being attached to the Royal Warwickshire Regt. He was killed by a trench mortar. He was a member of the Lewis Gun Detachment.
Lincolnshire Chronicle, 20 May 1916, page 9.
As a boy attended St. Botolph's Church Sunday and Day schools, and later became a Sunday school teacher and continued as such until he was 22 years of age, when owing to a business change, he removed to Birmingham. Whilst in Lincoln he was a draughtsman at Messrs Ruston, Proctor & Co. Ltd. On the outbreak of war deceased who was still at Birmingham, enlisted in the Birmingham City Battalion, being attached to the Royal Warwickshire Regt. He was killed by a trench mortar. He was a member of the Lewis Gun Detachment.
Lincolnshire Chronicle, 20 May 1916, page 9.
BRISTOW Charles Henry. Private 579. 15th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Killed in action 7th May 1916, aged 25 years. Son of Henry and Mary A Bristow of 6 Cranwell Street, Lincoln, Lincs. Born Lincoln St Faith, Lincs, enlisted Birmingham, WAR and resident Lincoln, Lincs. His brother, Tom, was a civilian casualty in World War II. Commemorated FAUBOURG-D'AMIENS CEMETERY, ARRAS. I.B.25. / Lincoln "In Memoriam" / Lincoln City WM / Lincoln Constitutional Club / Lincoln Memory Book / Lincoln St Botolph
As a boy attended St. Botolph's Church Sunday and Day schools, and later became a Sunday school teacher and continued as such until he was 22 years of age, when owing to a business change, he removed to Birmingham. Whilst in Lincoln he was a draughtsman at Messrs Ruston, Proctor & Co. Ltd. On the outbreak of war deceased who was still at Birmingham, enlisted in the Birmingham City Battalion, being attached to the Royal Warwickshire Regt. He was killed by a trench mortar. He was a member of the Lewis Gun Detachment.
Lincolnshire Chronicle, 20 May 1916, page 9.
As a boy attended St. Botolph's Church Sunday and Day schools, and later became a Sunday school teacher and continued as such until he was 22 years of age, when owing to a business change, he removed to Birmingham. Whilst in Lincoln he was a draughtsman at Messrs Ruston, Proctor & Co. Ltd. On the outbreak of war deceased who was still at Birmingham, enlisted in the Birmingham City Battalion, being attached to the Royal Warwickshire Regt. He was killed by a trench mortar. He was a member of the Lewis Gun Detachment.
Lincolnshire Chronicle, 20 May 1916, page 9.
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Private, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Age: 25.
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