ABBOTT, CHARLES THOMAS. Company Q.M. Sergeant, No. 5080, B Company, 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Regt., son of Graves Abbott, Sergeant 1st Battalion Royal Scottish Fusiliers; b. Secunderabad, India, 13 Sept, 1881; enlisted 15 April, 1896; served in the South African War (Medal with Clasps), in India, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action 24 May, 1915. He married at Karachi, 9 Dec, 1908, Margaret Helen, daughter of John William Gorbey, of Carrick-on-Suir, and had a son and two daughters: Henry Graves, b. Agra. 17 Nov. 1910; Agnes May, b. Agra, 2 Oct. 1909; and Ellen Rewa, b. on the troopship Rewa in the Bay of Biscay, 26 Dec, 1911. Sergeant Abbott's brother-in-law, Corporal Frank R. Gorbey, D.C.M., was killed in action, 23 April, 1915.
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ABBOTT, CHARLES THOMAS. Company Q.M. Sergeant, No. 5080, B Company, 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Regt., son of Graves Abbott, Sergeant 1st Battalion Royal Scottish Fusiliers; b. Secunderabad, India, 13 Sept, 1881; enlisted 15 April, 1896; served in the South African War (Medal with Clasps), in India, and with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; killed in action 24 May, 1915. He married at Karachi, 9 Dec, 1908, Margaret Helen, daughter of John William Gorbey, of Carrick-on-Suir, and had a son and two daughters: Henry Graves, b. Agra. 17 Nov. 1910; Agnes May, b. Agra, 2 Oct. 1909; and Ellen Rewa, b. on the troopship Rewa in the Bay of Biscay, 26 Dec, 1911. Sergeant Abbott's brother-in-law, Corporal Frank R. Gorbey, D.C.M., was killed in action, 23 April, 1915.
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