G.+GREAVES

Greaves, Charles, Private, 1662, 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers Born Bakewell, Derbyshire Enlisted Wakefield, Yorkshire Disembarked for service 13th August 1914 Died of wounds 1st November 1914 Buried in La Clytte Military Cemetery, I, D, 1

Further information courtesy of Nick Beeley: Charles was born in Offerton, near Hathersage, where the family farm was located, and he enlisted in 1905. He had a brother George who had served during the Boer War, and according to a family story, at the outbreak of the Great War, George disappeared out on the moors and was never found.


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