|
| Name: |
Charles Edwin MASON |
|
| Casualty No.: |
|
Ranks: |
Private |
Initials: |
C E |
Service No.: |
13425 (13485 according to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission). |
|
| Date of Birth : |
- |
Place of Birth : |
Knaresborough, North Yorkshire. |
Age at Death: |
26 |
|
| Unit: |
10th (Service) Bn Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders). |
|
| Former Unit(s): |
10328 18th (Queen Mary's Own) Hussars. |
|
|
| Place Enlisted: |
Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. |
| Place of Residence: |
Stella, Blaydon on Tyne, Co. Durham. |
| Home Address: |
7 Tempest Street, Stella, Blaydon on Tyne, Co. Durham. |
| Previous Address: |
Foundry Lane, Hexham, Northumberland. |
| Civilian Employment: |
Farm labourer in Wark and Humshaugh, Northumberland. |
| How Died: |
Died from injuries sustained following a kick by a horse. |
| Date of Death: |
Sunday 5th May 1918 |
| Place of Death: |
In a military hospital, Rouen, France. |
| Battle/Campaign: |
|
| Locally Commemorated: |
No |
| UK Commemorated: |
Blaydon War Memorial, Blaydon on Tyne, Co. Durham.
St Cuthbert's Church, Blaydon on Tyne, Co. Durham.
Hexham War Memorial, Abbey Grounds, Hexham, Northumberland.
|
| Overseas Commemorated: |
- |
| Buried: |
Bois Guillaume Communal Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France. Grave reference C. 17B. |
| Decoration and Medals: |
1914 Star. War Medal. Victory Medal. |
| Photographs: |
4 |
| Service Records: |
No |
| Death Notice/Obituary: |
No |
| Family Details: |
Adopted son of Mr and Mrs Brodrick of 7 Tempest Street, Stella, Blaydon on Tyne, Co Durham. Only son of Mrs Mason of Foundry Lane, Hexham, Northumberland. |
| Notes : |
Enlisted in the Army in 1909. Seriously wounded at the First Battle of Ypres (Ieper), Belgium, 1914. By the time of his death he had been wounded nine times and gassed once. |
| Sources Used: |
Commonwealth War Graves Commission Debt of Honour Register.
Soldiers Died in the Great War.
Illustrated Chronicle, 7th December 1914.
Illustrated Chronicle, 4th January 1915.
Illustrated Chronicle, 3rd April 1915.
Illustrated Chronicle, 18th April 1918.
The faith and fire within. In memory of the men of Hexham who fell in the Great War by Alan Isaac Grint (Ergo Press, Hexham, Northumberland, 2006).
|
|
