Private Charles Edwin Carratt

Army Number: 24235

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

Born in Mexborough, Yorkshire. and lived at Bulwell, Nottingham. Son of Edwin and Sarah Carratt, of 53, Clarges Street, Bulwell, Nottingham. He was a cowboy on a farm prior to enlisting at Bulwell. He served in Gallipoli during 1915 with the 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment and was killed in action, 16th September 1916, age 20. in the attack at Guillemont, France during the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Thiepval Memorial, France.

Private Charles Edwin Carratt is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St, Mary the Virgin Church War Memorial, Bulwell, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Private Frederick Carratt, 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment also fell in the Great War.