Pte, Charles Chipchase, 2nd Coldstream Guards

BORN HULL 12/08/1880. SCULCOATES. SON OF THOMAS CHIPCHASE (1838-1888) AND SARAH LEADLEY (1842- ), OF SCOTT STREET, HULL. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND A SISTER.

EDUCATED AT HULL'S CHARTERHOUSE LANE BOARD SCHOOL. HE WAS A PROFESSIONAL SOLDER & ARMY RESERVIST. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 19/08/1901, JOINING THE 2ND BATTALION, COLDSTREAM GUARDS. IN CIVILIAN LIFE HE WORKED AS A CEMENT WORKS LABOURER (1911 CENSUS).

CALLED UP WHEN WAR BEGAN, HE ARRIVED FRANCE, WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, ON 12/08/1914. SERVING WITH THE 2ND COLDSTREAM GUARDS. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, AT RENTAL, BELGIUM, ON 05/11/1914, AGED 34.

HE IS BURIED IN RENTAL WOOD AND LATER SANCTUARY WOOD CEMETERY, BELGIUM.

HE MARRIED AT ST SAVIOUR'S CHURCH, HULL, ON 10/06/1906. HIS WIFE ELIZABETH PRITCHARD (BORN 10/8/1879) AND THEIR FOUR CHILDREN, LIVED AT 4, CHAPMAN STREET, HULL; 7, POPLAR AVENUE, POPLAR STREET, HULL; 31, POPLAR AVENUE, POPLAR STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS) AND 87, COURTNEY STREET, HULL (HULL DAILY MAIL ADDRESS, 18/11/1914) *

HIS NAME WAS LISTED ON COURTNEY STREET MEMORIAL AND IS ALSO RECORDED IN THE DE RUGVIGNY ROLL OF HONOUR.

HIS DEATH AND THIS ADDRESS WERE REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 21/11/1914, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *

HE LEFT A WIDOW AND FOUR CHILDREN (CHARLES EDWIN, PERCY PRITCHARD, STANLEY PRITCHARD AND DAVID WILLIAM, ALL BORN BETWEEN 1907-1912. HIS WIDOW WAS AWARDED A WEEKLY WAR PENSION OF 25 SHILLINGS, ON 24/5/1915.