Private Charles F Measom, 200099

  • Batt - 1/4
  • Unit - Leicestershire Regiment
  • Section -
  • Date of Birth -
  • Died - 22/09/1917
  • Age - 22

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Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Harry and Eliza Measom. The War Diary for the 22nd September to the 27th September 1917 records. Quiet. We kept enemy well supplied with stokes shells and rifle grenades. He was rather unresponsive. Our 60 pounder trench mortars bombarded him severely.

Leicestershire Project Findings
  • Conflict - World War I
Research from Michael Doyle's Their Name Liveth For Evermore
  • Unit - Leicestershire Regiment
  • Cause of death - KILLED IN ACTION
  • Burial Commemoration - Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, France
  • Born - Burton Overy, Leicestershire
  • Enlisted - Wigston, Leicestershire
  • Place of Residence - 3 Barrack Yard, Moat Street, Wigston Magna, Leicestershire, England
  • Memorial - All Saint's Churchyard Memorial, Wigston Magna, Leicestershire
  • Memorial - Wigston Council Offices Memorial, Leicestershire

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