Saturday 10 November 2018

Blackmore. Remembering Charles Speller

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 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.

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