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Surname: WARD
Forename(s): Charles
Place of Birth: Skipton, Yorkshire
Service No: 176517
Rank: Gunner
Regiment / Corps / Service: Royal Garrison Artillery
Battalion / Unit: 354th Siege Battery
Division: ---
Age: 34
Date of Death: 1918-10-17
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: IV. A. 2.
CWGC Cemetery: BUSIGNY COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: SKIPTON, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Charles Ward was the son of Thomas and Mary Ellen Ward, née Chew. Thomas was born at Embsay and Mary at Skipton, Yorkshire. Thomas was the half-brother of Private James Ward (12842) (q.v.) and Private John Ward (235305) (q.v.).
1891 Skipton, Yorkshire Census: 18, Belgrave Street - Charles Ward, aged 6 years, born Skipton. [Charles was living with his grandmother, Mary Chew, widow.]
1901 Skipton, Yorkshire Census: 18, Belgrave Street - Charlie Ward, aged 16 years, born Skipton. [Charles and his widowed mother, Mary Ellen, were living with her brother, Richard Chew.]
Charles was married to Isabella Taylor in 1904.
1911 Skipton, Yorkshire Census: 20, Castle Street - Charles Ward, aged 26 years, born Skipton, husband of Isabella Ward.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Gnr Charles Ward, 176517, Royal Garrison Artillery.
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:
WARD, Gunner Charles, aged 34, R.G.A., 16, Westmorland Street, Skipton, killed in action Oct. 17, 1918.
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Gunner Charles WARD
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Royal Garrison Artillery
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01 November 1918
WARD – October 17th, 1918, killed in action in France, Gunner Charles Ward, R.G.A., of 16 Westmorland Street, Skipton.
No one who knew him need ever be told
That a warmer heart death never made cold;
His loving smile, his cheerful face,
There’s none can fill my husbands place.
From his sorrowing Wife and child and Doris.
01 November 1918
Skipton Gunner Killed
Gunner Charles Ward, R.G.A., who was killed in action on October 17th, was the secretary of the Hope of Craven Juvenile Tent of the Independent Order of Rechabites and a member of the Gargrave Road Primitive Methodist Chapel. He was in civil life a weaving overlooker for Messrs. Dixon, Skipton, and leaves a wife and child, whose home is at 16 Westmorland Street, Skipton. In a letter of sympathy to Mrs. Ward, Captain J. S. Lovell says that Private Ward was killed instantaneously at his post, and that the officers and men of the regiment are very sorry to lose so good a man. He also states that he buried deceased near the spot where he fell and marked the place by a cross. Private Ward, who was 34 years of age, enlisted on September 1st, 1917, and had been at the Front since Jan. 22nd this year.
17 October 1919
WARD – In loving memory of my dear husband, Gunner Charles Ward, R.G.A., who fell in action October 17th, 1918, at Fresnoy le Grand.
Memory remains, though the one I loved
Has passed to that Golden Land;
How sad the parting, how lonely my heart,
God alone can understand.
From his loving Wife and Child, 16 Westmorland Street, Skipton.
WARD – In loving memory of a dear friend, Gunner Charles Ward, who fell in action October 17th, 1918.
What would I give to clasp his hand,
His dear kind face to see;
To hear his voice, to see his smile
That meant so much to me.
From Doris, Niffany.
15 October 1920
WARD – In ever loving memory of a dear husband and dad, Gunner Charles Ward, R.G.A., who fell in action, October 17th, 1918.
He was ours: and we remember,
Though the world forgets.
From his loving Wife and Child, 16 Westmorland Street, Skipton.
14 October 1921
WARD – As a tribute of love and remembrance of a dear husband and father, Gunner Charles Ward, who was killed in action, October 17th, 1918.
The memory of his life is our sweetest thought.”
From his loving Wife and Child.
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01 November 1918
WARD – Oct. 17th, 1918, killed in action in France, Gunner Chas. Ward, R.G.A., of 16, Westmorland Street, Skipton.
No one who knew him need ever be told
That a warmer heart death never made cold;
His loving smile, his cheerful face,
There’s none can fill my husband’s place.
– From his sorrowing Wife and Child, and Doris.
01 November 1918
Skipton Gunner Killed
Mrs. Ward, of 16, Westmorland Street, Skipton, has received a letter from Captain J.S. Lowell, stating that her husband, Gunner Charles Ward, of the R.G.A., was killed instantaneously at his post on Oct. 17th. He also adds that they all grieved very much at the loss of so good a man, that he was buried near the spot and a cross would be erected. Gunner Ward, who was 34 years of age, enlisted in September 1917, and went to France in January last. He was formerly employed as a weaving overlooker by Mr. Dixon, manufacturer, Skipton, and was secretary of the juvenile section for the Hope of Craven Rechabites. He attended the Gargrave Road Primitive Methodist Church.
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