Private Charles Fewkes

Army Number: 21062

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

Born and lived at Nottingham. Son of John Thomas Eyre Fewkes and Mary Fewkes, of 25, White Road, Old Basford, Nottingham. He was a carriage hand prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He went to France 3rd May 1915 and was killed in action, 9th August 1915, aged 23, in the attack at Sanctuary Wood, Belgium.

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

Private Charles Fewkes is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
St. Leodegarius Church War Memorial, Basford, Nottingham.
Old Basford Wesleyan Methodist Church War Memorial, Basford, Nottingham.
New Whitemoor Baptist Church War Memorial, Whitemoor, Nottingham.