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Charles Edward R. Powell

17 August 2015 by SWM

C. E. R. Powell
Service no. 6966/233236
Private, London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), “C” Coy. 2nd Battalion
Killed in action on 18 March 1917, aged 23
Born in St Helena; enlisted at Westminster; lived at Lambeth
CWGC: “Son of Mr C. E. and Mrs A. M. Powell, of 8, Walberswick St., London, SW8.”
Remembered at Beaurains Road Cemetery, Beaurains, France

Information from the 1911 census

In 1911 Charles Edward R. Powell, 17, was a clerk to a stone mason. He lived with his parents and three siblings at 73 Grosvenor Road, Westminster, where the family had three rooms. Powell’s father, Charles Edward Powell, 45, was an Army pensioner now working as a timekeeper for a hotel. He was born in St. George’s West, London. Amy Powell, 38, was from Winchester, Hampshire. The eldest three children were born on St Helena in the South Atlantic, I guess while Charles senior was stationed there. It was then a Crown Colony.
Dorothy Helena Powell, 18, a clerk to a blouse manufacturer
Charles Edward Powell, 17, a clerk to a stone mason
Albert Powell, 16, a schoolboy and part-time messenger
Reginald Alfred Powell, 13, born in Aldershot, Hampshire

Filed Under: P names, Stockwell War Memorial Tagged With: 1917, age 23, France, KIA

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