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In Memory of

Private Charles Fletcher

23140
C Company, 7th Battalion King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
Killed in Action 23rd September 1917 Age 36

Private Charles Fletcher lived with his parents Thomas and Martha Fletcher at 71, Birley Street, Newton-le-Willows, and worked with his father as a painter and decorator. He was also a bellringer at St Peter's Church. He joined up with his group under the Lord Derby Scheme. SDGW adds "Formerly 25297, South Lancs Regt."

He had been invalided back home once and was back at the front for a second time. According to the obituary published in the Warrington Guardian on 13th October, "he had been back only a short time when he was injured by a shell exploding near him, and on his first day in the trenches after recovery from the effects of this he was killed instantaneously as the result of another shell dropping by him." Charles was killed during the 3rd Battle of Ypres, usually known as Passchendaele, and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.