Charles Wilfred was born in 1895 in the school house Croft Lincs, where his father was the school master. He had three sisters and one brother Edgar Reginald, my grandfather, who also fought in the war and fortunately survived. CWJ enlisted in Peterborough although the family lived in Leicester at this time. He was a private in the 7th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment and was sent to France during the third week in September. He was posted as "missing" after the engagement on 27th Sept of the Battle of Loos and it is assumed that he was wounded on this day and taken to the Fortress Hospital Cologne. He died of Cerebral Apoplexy on 5th October 1915.

Shelagh Tinning