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Charles Smailes (N.B. CWGC website records the surname as Smalles but both Ancestry.co.uk, specifically the UK Armys Registers of Soldiers Effects, 1901-1929 page, & Soldiers Died… spell it as Smailes))

Forename(s):
Charles

Surname:
Smailes (N.B. CWGC website records the surname as Smalles but both Ancestry.co.uk, specifically the UK Army's Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929 page, & 'Soldiers Died...' spell it as Smailes))

Initial(s):
C

Service Number:
11981

Rank:
Private

Regiment:
Northumberland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion

Died:
18/01/1915

Aged:
33

Buried:
Menin Gate Memorial, Ieper

Service History:
Enlisted at Wooler, Northumberland.

Background:
Born at Darlington, County Durham.

Son of William & Sarah Smalles, of 8 Brunton Street, Darlington.

Local Memorial:
Darlington, Triptych in the Church of St. John the Evangelist (Source: newmp.org.uk)