Corporal Charles Cursley

Army Number: 27191

Battalion: 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Son of Charles and Harriet Cursley, of Hallaton, Market Harborough, Leicestershire and lived at 4 Roden Street, Nottingham. Son of Charles and Harriet Cursley, of Hallaton. He was a police constable prior to enlisting on 10th June 1915 at Nottingham. He was killed in action, 3rd September 1916, age 26, during the attack at Beaumont Hamel, France during the Battle of the Somme.

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

Corporal Charles Cursley is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Hallaton War Memorial, Hallaton, Leicestershire.
St. Michael’s Church War Memorial, Hallaton, Leicestershire.
Nottinghamshire Police Headquarters War Memorial, Burntstump, Papplewick, Nottinghamshire.
Nottinghamshire County Council Employees War Memorial, Galleries of Justice, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.