Charlbury Museum News from World War I
Three men from Charlbury were killed in action in the first week of the Battle of Passchendaele in August 1917. Bertram Brookfield, son of the former station-master, was killed by a shell on the night of August 5th, aged 20, and is remembered on the Menin Gate Memorial. He was a member of the Church Lads Brigade. Herbert Robert Castle, head gardener at Sandford Mount, died of wounds on 4th August, aged 30. William Richard Lane, a journeyman carpenter at home,a Regimental Sergeant Major in the Oxon & Bucks Light Infantry, was killed on the night of August 5th. For many years he had drilled the Church Lads Brigade, was foreman of the Bell Ringers, and sang in the dhurch choir.
Janet Jeffs · Mon 31 Jul 2017, 16:45 · Link