1885 - 1916
CPL David Wallace Crawford
1887 - 1916
Lce-Corpl John Joseph Nickle
1894 - 1916
Pte 17911 Morton Neill
1897 - 1916
Lieut Edward Stanley Ashcroft
1883 - 1918
Pte 47317 Charles Frederick Lumb
- Age: 36
- From: Southport, Lancs
- Regiment: The King's (Liverpool Regiment) 19th Btn
- D.O.W Sunday 15th April 1917
- Commemorated at: Etaples Mil Cem
Panel Ref: XXII.J.22
The 1891 Census shows the family are living at Everton Road, Birkdale. Charles is shown as 10 years of age and is living with his parents and two sisters. His father, is shown as a printer born in Huddersfield in 1853, whilst his mother is shown as having been born in Salford in 1844. His two sisters, both born in Southport are shown as; Mary E., born in 1879 and Alice M., born in1883.
By 1901 the family have moved to 82 Cemetery Road, Birkdale. His father is inexplicably recorded as Joseph F. a house painter born in Huddersfield whilst his mother is now recorded as having been born in Manchester in 1842. Charles is now 20 and his employment is recorded as a blind maker. He has 2 siblings listed, those being his two sisters from the Census of 1891. They are still at home and Mary is now a domestic nurse whilst Alice is a stocking maker. Also present is David Lumb the grandfather of the children, he is 74 and from Huddersfield. There is also a boarder in the property a baby Gladys M. Kennedy born in 1901.
By 1911 the family have moved again to 152 Duke Street, Southport. Charles is aged 30, single and a window blind maker. His father George F. is aged 57, a house painter, his mother, Emma, is aged 71, They advised that they have been married for 33 years, and have had 3 children. His married sister, Mary Elizabeth Shaw, is aged 32, her adopted daughter, Gladys Mary, is aged 11 and at school. Also present are a boarder, Edward Hunter aged 1, and a visitor, widow Sarah Ann Thompson 71.
Charles married Margaret Ann McKeown in 1912 at St Peter's Church in Birkdale. Charles was a 31 year old blind maker of 152 Duke Street, his father, George F., was a painter, whilst Margaret was aged 29 of 1 Vaughan Road, her father, John, was a deceased joiner. They had two children; John Frederick born on the 06th November 1913 and Mary Emma born on the 27th November 1915.
His mother died, aged 72, in 1912.
Charles was serving with the 19th Battalion of The King's Liverpool Regiment as Private 47317 when he died of wounds on 15th April 1917, age 36.“THY WILL BE DONE”
During the First World War, the area around Etaples was the scene of immense concentrations of Commonwealth reinforcement camps and hospitals. It was remote from attack, except from aircraft, and accessible by railway from both the northern or the southern battlefields. In 1917, 100,000 troops were camped among the sand dunes and the hospitals, which included eleven general, one stationary, four Red Cross hospitals and a convalescent depot, could deal with 22,000 wounded or sick. In September 1919, ten months after the Armistice, three hospitals and the Q.M.A.A.C. convalescent depot remained.
The cemetery contains 10,771 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, the earliest dating from May 1915. 35 of these burials are unidentified. It is the largest CWGC cemetery in France, and was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.
This was reported in the Liverpool Daily Post on Saturday 19th May 1917;DIED OF WOUNDS.
Liverpool R. - Coventry, 267557, W. L.; Hewson, 52360, R. (Bootle); Lumb, 47317, C. F. (Birkdale); Markey, 42660, J.
CWGC record his age as 37 but by the birth records he was 36.
He earned his two medals, the cards are incorrectly named Lund.
Soldiers Effects, Army Pay of £1 19s 10d, £3 War Gratuity and Pension of 29s 11d to widow Margaret Ann and children John Frederick and Mary Emma, 40 Shaw’s Rd, Birkdale.
On the 1921 Census at Shaw’s Road, Margaret Ann is aged 38, with children John, aged 7 and Mary, aged 5. Also present is her widowed mother Mary McKeown, aged 71.
She remarried to William H. Jackson in 1928 at St Andrew's, Southport but died the following year, aged 47.
His father died, aged 72, in 1925.
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