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Charles Thomas Abbott

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Charles Thomas Abbott

Birth
Secunderabad, Telangana, India
Death
24 May 1915 (aged 33)
Burial
Tramore, County Waterford, Ireland Add to Map
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Extract from: The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty’s Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916.

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.

Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)
Extract from: The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty’s Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916.

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.

Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)


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