Private Charles Knowles

Army Number: 23283

Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Brampton, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. Son of John and Annie Knowles, of 208 Chatsworth Road, Chesterfield. Husband of Mary Ann Knowles, of Walton Fields Road, Chesterfield. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting at Chesterfield. He served in Gallipoli during 1915 with the 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. He was killed in action, on 31st July 1917 in the British attack at Bellewaarde Lake, near Ypres, Belgium.

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

Private Charles Knowles is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Thomas the Apostles Church War Memorial, Brampton, Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

His brother Private James Knowles, 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.