William Charles Lucas, known to the family as Charlie, was born in Kirkdale, Liverpool in June 1888, he had served 4 years in the TF before the war (1/5th Welsh Regiment), joining around the same time as his brother Percy became a special reservist, he worked at the same hall as his brother, but Percy was a gardner Charles was a groom, hence his service in the Yeomanry. He enlisted (1273) as a Trooper in the 3/1st Denbigh Hussars Yeomanry in July 1915, transfering to the 4th (Reserve) battalion of the RWF in November 1916 at Park Hall, Oswestry. He died of peritonitis at the Military hospital there on 6th February 1917 aged 28, and was buried on the 10th at the cemetery at Mount Road, St Asaph, being the first man from St. Asaph to have a full military funeral. We still have his plaque and various cuttings and photographs, and the original cross placed over his grave in 1917 with the family. Matthew Lucas

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