Person:Charles Aves (5)

1918 - Private (55719) with 2nd/4th Btn York & Lancaster Regiment when he was killed. Military Medal. Commemorated on Panel 9 of Vis-en-Artois Memorial, Pas de Calais. Charles also has a memorial at North Lopham where is named as the grandson of Charles and Mary Ann Murton.

CWGC Record: Name: AVES, CHARLES ALBERT; Initials: C A; Nationality: United Kingdom; Rank: Private; Regiment: York and Lancaster Regiment; Unit Text: 2nd/4th Bn.; Date of Death: 02/09/1918; Service No: 55719; Awards: MM; Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead; Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 9; Cemetery: VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL. Vis-en-Artois and Haucourt are villages on the straight main road from Arras to Cambrai about 10 kilometres south-east of Arras. Within the grounds of Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery, which is west of Haucourt on the north side of the main road, will be found the Vis-en-Artois Memorial. This Memorial bears the names of over 9,000 men who fell in the period from 8 August 1918 to the date of the Armistice in the Advance to Victory in Picardy and Artois, between the Somme and Loos, and who have no known grave.

Army Service Record: Charles Albert AVES; WO363 A717; Attestation for Short Service (Duration of the War (Army form B 2505); No: 49727 __ Training Res. __ crossed through and stamped York & Lancaster Regiment; Charles Albert Aves; Address: 35 Southwick Street, Paddington; British subject; 18 yrs 5 days; Clerk; Not married; No previous military service; Willing to be vaccinated; Willing to be enlisted for General Service; Willing to serve for the duration of the War; Attested at London on 9 Feb 1917.

Names and addresses of the Relatives of the deceased (Army Form W 5080): Widow - none; Children - none; Father - Albert Aves; Mother - Georgina Aves; Brothers - none; Sisters - Alice Georgina Brand, aged 25 and Edith Aves, aged 17; All of the above living at 10 Kildare Gardens, Bayswater, W2; Declaration signed by father Albert Aves 23 September 1919 in the presence of Wesleyan Minister Edgar C Barton.

Information from various other documents: Height: 5ft 10½in; Chest: girth 37in; Expansion 4in; Religion - Methodist; Born: Paddington on one document and Finsbury on another.

Conduct Sheet: Old Hard? Camp 22.8.1917 Pte; "When on active service leaving the ____ without permission. Punishment 3 days CB"

Letters from his mother dated June and July 1919 complain of receiving his Military Medal (for bravery in the field) with no clasp and the ribbon not attached. She also requests that any of his effects which are found should be forwarded - all that she had received were his two discs.