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Charles Wash
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War Memorial: Place and
inscription
Blackmore
War Memorial: Dr. C. Wash R.E.
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Rank:
Driver
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Regiment:
Royal
Engineers 131st Field Company.
Service No: 37751. [CWGC]
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Service Details:
Enlisted:
Chelmsford [WFA]
Medal card:
Campaign 1914-15 Wash, Charles RE Dr 37751 died
Victory/British
RE/101 B99 p. 21031
15 star
RE/2B p. 434
First
theatre [1] France 19/11/15 no contact address. [Ancestry]
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Personal and family information:
Son of
Robert and Minnie Wash, of Spriggs Farm, Blackmore. [CWGC]
Brother
of Walter Herbert Wash.
Charles Wash was baptised on 29th
August 1880
(born 12th April 1879) at Wethersfield, Essex.
His parents were Robert (a labourer) and Minnie. He was baptised on the same day as his
younger sister Elizabeth [ERO D/P 119/1/11].
Younger siblings were baptised at Blackmore End (part of Wethersfield): Jessie on 6th
September 1883; Sarah on 21st September 1884 [ERO 550/1/1]. After this the trail goes cold.
1911
Census. Charles Wash living at Park
Farm Cottage, Little Waltham, farm labourer age 32, born Wethersfield, with parents [both b. Wethersfield] Robert, horseman on farm age 54
and Minnie age 60.
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Date of Death:
25th October 1918
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Age:
39
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Where died:
Died. Salonika. [WFA]
Plovdiv is a city on the main road from Sofia to Istanbul. The Commonwealth servicemen
buried at Plovdiv Central Cemetery died either as prisoners of war
or while serving with the occupying forces following the Bulgarian
capitulation in September 1918.
Charles Wash must have been in the latter group.
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Place of Burial or Commemoration:
Buried at
Plovdiv
Central Cemetery, Bulgaria. Grave D6. [CWGC]
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List of Sources:
Ancestry,
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), Essex Record Office, Western Front Association.
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