Kent,+Charles

Charles Kent

Born in 1884 he died aged 32 on 17-9-1916 Served with the rank of Sarjeant in the Duke of Wellington (West Riding ) Regiment 1st and 7th Bns. Service number 2884.

His name is recorded on THIEPVAL MEMORIAL on the Somme. Pier and Face 6a and 6b. This memorial is to those who died on the Somme who have no known grave and over 72,000 are recorded. Thiepval is in Picardy and the memorial is close to numerous medical stations and small graveyards used by field ambulance between July 1815 and Feb. 1918.

Charles was born in Sheffield and although his name is recorded on Oxenhope war memorial he cannot have lived in the village for long as he married Ethel Crooks in Sheffield in 1913 and their son Charles was born there in 1914 .At the time of his death Ethel lived at 6 Uppertown. Oxenhope.