Charles Redfearn was machined gunned whilst attending a wounded colleague and admitted to a casualty clearing station with wounds to both legs. On 1st December he was moved to the 16th Stationary Hospital at St Omer where he died.

He played the clarinet in the Worksop Town Band and had been a bell ringer at the Priory Church.

His wife and four children under 13 years of age were bereaved.

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