Charles Henry – Archer – Great Western Railway – Private – 16/05/1915

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Title

Charles Henry – Archer – Great Western Railway – Private – 16/05/1915

Initials / forenames

Charles Henry

Surname

Archer

Railway company

Great Western Railway

Military unit

Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 2nd Battalion

Military rank

Private

Military number

9945

Railway department

Engineering Department, Bampton

Railway job

Packer

Date died

16/05/1915

Magazine reference

Great Western Railway Magazine, September 1915, p235. Photo: September 1915, p239

Memorial

Le Touret Memorial

Notes

Aged 36, son of Edwin Archer of Brize Norton, Bampton; husband of Ellen Archer of Field View, Brize Norton, Bampton, Oxford. He had been in the GWR since September 1903. He volunteered for the army in December 1914.

Information source

St Paul's Cathedral Order of Service 1919, Great Western Railway Magazine (image and research contributed by STEAM: Museum of the Great Western Railway), Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Date entered

22/02/2017

Last updated

22/02/2017

Citation

“Charles Henry – Archer – Great Western Railway – Private – 16/05/1915,” Fallen Railwaymen, accessed May 15, 2024, https://fallenrailwaymen.omeka.net/items/show/62335.