Blackmore. Remembering Charles Speller

Charles Speller

War Memorial: Place and inscription -

Rank: Private

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

Service Details: Born Blackmoor, Brentford, Essex, (incorrect entry) 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. Born 1876, son of Henry Speller (b. 1837, Vange) and Eliza Speller (nee Law, b. 1838, Pitsea) Married 1899. 1891 Census: Living at Back Lane, Great Burstead, Billericay, age 15 general labourer. Recorded as Charley. Married 1899. 1901 Census: Living at Wyatts Green age 25 haybinder b. Billericay, with wife Ellen 22 b. Horne Surrey and dau. Fairy 1 b. Blackmore. 1911 Census: Living in four rooms at Nelson Cottage, Blackmore, with wife and four children. 1914 Electoral Roll.  Charles Speller recorded as living in Ingatestone Road [ERO C/E 1/2/26] Baptisms of children (incomplete) 19th February 1905:  Dorothy Alexandra Maria, daughter of Charles & Ellen Speller, Haybinder. 21st September 1911:  Charles Harold Irving, son of Charles & Ellen Speller, Hay Binder. 27th November 1914:  Joan, daughter of Charles & Ellen Speller, Hay Cutter [ERO D/P 266/1/17].

Date of Death: 26th 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, Graham Speller.