Private Charles Alfred Bourne
Army Number: 202956 (formerly 6503)
Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
Born at Southwark, London and lived at 111, Faraday Street, Wallworth, London. Husband of Ada Bourne, of 20, Mill Lane, Reading. He was a pawnbroker prior to enlisting 9th December 1915 at Southwark into the 2/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. He went to France 23rd May 1917 and posted to the 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. He was posted to the 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 15th June 1917 and was killed, 31st July 1917, age 30, by German shellfire whilst serving in the line near Ypres, Belgium.
Commemorated : Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41.