Blackmore Area Local History

Charles Speller

War Memorial: Place and inscription
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Rank:
Private

Regiment:
Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) London Regiment posted to 2^nd / 20^th Battalion.  Service No:G/36663 [CWGC]

Service Details:
Born Blackmoor, Brentford, Essex.
Enlisted Southend, Essex.
Private G/36663 formerly S/37306, R.A.S.C. [SDGW]

Personal and family information:
No baptism entry for Charles Speller at Blackmore. 

1901 Census: Living at Wyatts Green age 25 haybinder b. Billericay, with wife Ellen 22 b. Horne Surrey and dau. Fairy 1 b. Blackmore.
1914 Electoral Roll.  Charles Speller recorded as living in Ingatestone Road [ERO C/E 1/2/26].

Baptisms of children (incomplete)
19^th February 1905:  Dorothy Alexandra Maria, daughter of Charles & Ellen Speller, Haybinder.
21^st September 1911:  Charles Harold Irving, son of Charles & Ellen Speller, Hay Binder.
27^th November 1914:  Joan, daughter of Charles & Ellen Speller, Hay Cutter [ERO D/P 266/1/17].

Date of Death:
26^th September 1918

Age:
42

Where died:
Killed in action France & Flanders [SDGW]

Place of Burial or Commemoration:
Grave/Memorial Reference: N. 13. Ruyaulcourt Military Cemetery. [CWGC]

List of Sources:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Essex Record Office, Soldiers who Died in the Great War.