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Surname: GROVE
Forename(s): Charles
Place of Birth: Settle, Yorkshire
Service No: 26624
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: East Lancashire Regiment
Battalion / Unit: 8th (Service) Battalion
Division: 37th Division
Age: 37
Date of Death: 1917-04-28
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Bay 6.
CWGC Cemetery: ---
CWGC Memorial: ARRAS MEMORIAL
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: SETTLE, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Charles Grove (born 6 June 1879) was the son of George and Elizabeth Grove, née Alderson. George was born at Aston Tirrold, Berkshire and Elizabeth at Reeth, Yorkshire.
1881 Settle, Yorkshire Census: Poole's Row - Charley Grove, aged 1 year, born Settle, son of George and Elizabeth Grove.
1891 Settle, Yorkshire Census: Poole's Row - Charlie Grove, aged 11 years, born Settle, son of George and Elizabeth Grove.
1901 Settle, Yorkshire Census: Castle Hill - Charles Groves, aged 20 years, born Settle, son of George and Elizabeth Groves.
1911 Nelson, Lancashire Census: 20, Cliffe Street - Charles Grove, aged 30 years, born Settle, Yorkshire, son of George and Elizabeth Grove.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Charles Grove, 26624, E. Lan. R.
British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte Charles Grove, 26624, 10th East Lancs.; 8th East Lancs.
Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte Charles Grove, 26624, 8th Bn. E. Lanc. Date and Place of Death: 28.4.17. In Action. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Father - George. £7 0s. 2d.
UK, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923: Pte Charles Grove, 26624, 8th East Lancs. Date and cause of death: 28.4.17. Killed in Action. France. Name(s) on card(s): Dependant: Albert [Herbert] Stanley Wakefield (Mrs Edith Burton) Guardian. Relationship: Illegitimate Child. Address: 17, Stoke Bardolph, Nr Nottingham.
Edith Annie Wakefield, born Shelford, Nottinghamshire, 5 October 1889, was the daughter of Henry and Ellen Wakefield. Edith married Tom Harry Burton in 1913.
In the 1911 Census for Old Colwick, Nottinghamshire, Edith’s son Herbert, born Colwick, was living with her aunt, Mary Jane Flowers, née Wakefield and her husband Herbert Flowers.
The 1921 Census shows that Edith her husband Tom, their three children and Edith's son Herbert, aged 10 years, 6 months, born Old Colwick, Nottinghamshire - Father Dead - were living at 17, Stoke Bardolph, Nottinghamshire. Edith died in 1963. Herbert, born 15 December 1910, married Elsie Marshall in 1930; he died in 1981.
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
View Entry in CPGW BookEntry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:
GROVES, Charles, East Lancs. Regiment, killed in action April 23, 1918.
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Private Charles GROVE
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: East Lancashire Regiment
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 37th Division
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08 June 1917
GROVES – Apri1 23rd 1917, killed in action in France, Pte. Charles Groves, East Lancs. Regiment, a native of Settle, and formerly footman at Malham Tarn.
08 June 1917
SETTLE – PRIVATE CHARLES GROVES KILLED
Pte. Charles Groves, of the ----- Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment, was killed in action on 23rd April last. Prior to joining up, the deceased was a barman at the Nelson Hotel, Nelson, and had been living in town some few years. He was a native of Settle, and was in the employ of Mr. Walter Morrison, of Malham Tarn, as footman. His parents live in Nelson.
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08 June 1917
SETTLE
PRIVATE CHARLES GROVES KILLED
Private Charles Groves, of the East Lancashire Regiment, was killed in action on April 23rd last. Prior to joining up the deceased was a barman at the Nelson Hotel, Nelson, and had been living in that town some few years. He was a native of Settle, and will be remembered when he was in the employ of Mr. Walter Morrison, of Malham Tarn, as footman. His parents live in Nelson.
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