Private Charles Blackshaw

Army Number: 3833

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Old Normanton, Derbyshire and lived at 27 Trafalgar Street, Derby. Son of Thomas Samuel and Mary Ann Blackshaw, of 23, Olive Street, Derby. He was a house painter prior to enlisting 10th August 1914 at Derby. He went to France  11th November 1914 and was killed in action, 9th August 1915, age 27, in the attack on the German positions near Sanctuary Wood, Belgium. 

Commemorated : Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41.