On this day 25th May 2014
by Unknown - 10:36 on 25 May 2014
Today 25th May we remember Private Charles Anthony Bartlett (5/1350) who served with the Durham Light Infantry.
He is being commemorated by Lorna, his great niece who has told me that Charles was born in Browney, County Durham on 13th January 1892. He was a son of a miner and became one himself. He enlisted on 27th May 1911 and married in August of the same year. He and his wife Jane had two children.
Charles suffered shrapnel wounds on 24th May 1915 and died from his wounds the following day (this was not long after the end of the 2nd Battle of Ypres). Initially Charles was buried at the farm of Henri Pattyn-Vanlaeres in Poperinge however, in 1920 he was relocated to the Klein-Vierstraat British Cemetery in Belgium. Charles is also commemorated on the war memorial in Coxhoe, Durham.
Lorna added the three small poppies to her square to represent the fact that Charles is from 3 generations back in her family , he left behind a wife and two children, that it is Lorna and her two children that remember him today. View Lorna's square in the Gallery
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