Service Number: 28951
Age: 28
Force: Army
Unit: Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division: 16th Bn.
Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty’s Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916.
AMOS, CHARLES BYRON, LANCE-Corporal, No. 28951, E Company, 16th Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st Canadian Contingent, youngest son of Henry Amos, of New House Farm, Sheldwich, Faversham, Kent, by his wife, Ellen Mary, daughter of John Byron, of Kirkby Green, Sleaford, co. Lincoln; b. Littles Manor, Sheldwich, 12 Aug. 1886; educated Felsted School, Essex, and the Crystal Palace School of Engineering. Went to Canada in April, 1913, and on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, enlisted at Vancouver, B.C. He was killed in action near Ypres, 25 April, 1915. A comrade wrote: "Charlie was shot after we had recaptured the guns and were returning. We were sent out of one small fort and had to dig ourselves in about 100 yards in advance of the fort, and it was whilst doing this that Charlie got hit; in fact, we had just received the order to get back to the fort, and he and I were making our way down a small ditch when he fell; his death was instantaneous, as he was shot in the head. Our ranks were, indeed, terribly thinned by that attack, but as we have been told by Gen. Anderson that it was our brigade who stopped the whole of the German line advancing, we feel very proud, and my deepest regret is that Charlie was not spared to share the honours; but you can all feel proud of him. He died like a man, and a better friend or braver soldier there was not." At Felsted he made a name for athletics, winning the junior steeplechase one year and the senior twice. He also took the championship for sports. He married at Hillingdon, West Uxbridge, 25 Oct. 1911, Brenda Grant, daughter of Edward Bailey, 9, Belmont Road, Uxbridge, and had issue a daughter, Angela Mary, b. 1 Nov. 1913.
Date of Enlistment: September 22, 1914
Valcartier, Québec, Canada
Son of Henry Amos, of Ashford, Kent, England; husband of Brenda Grant Amos, of London, England. Lance Corporal Amos was educated at Felstead, Essex, and Crystal Palace Engineering School, London, England.
Age: 28
Force: Army
Unit: Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division: 16th Bn.
Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty’s Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916.
AMOS, CHARLES BYRON, LANCE-Corporal, No. 28951, E Company, 16th Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st Canadian Contingent, youngest son of Henry Amos, of New House Farm, Sheldwich, Faversham, Kent, by his wife, Ellen Mary, daughter of John Byron, of Kirkby Green, Sleaford, co. Lincoln; b. Littles Manor, Sheldwich, 12 Aug. 1886; educated Felsted School, Essex, and the Crystal Palace School of Engineering. Went to Canada in April, 1913, and on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, enlisted at Vancouver, B.C. He was killed in action near Ypres, 25 April, 1915. A comrade wrote: "Charlie was shot after we had recaptured the guns and were returning. We were sent out of one small fort and had to dig ourselves in about 100 yards in advance of the fort, and it was whilst doing this that Charlie got hit; in fact, we had just received the order to get back to the fort, and he and I were making our way down a small ditch when he fell; his death was instantaneous, as he was shot in the head. Our ranks were, indeed, terribly thinned by that attack, but as we have been told by Gen. Anderson that it was our brigade who stopped the whole of the German line advancing, we feel very proud, and my deepest regret is that Charlie was not spared to share the honours; but you can all feel proud of him. He died like a man, and a better friend or braver soldier there was not." At Felsted he made a name for athletics, winning the junior steeplechase one year and the senior twice. He also took the championship for sports. He married at Hillingdon, West Uxbridge, 25 Oct. 1911, Brenda Grant, daughter of Edward Bailey, 9, Belmont Road, Uxbridge, and had issue a daughter, Angela Mary, b. 1 Nov. 1913.
Date of Enlistment: September 22, 1914
Valcartier, Québec, Canada
Son of Henry Amos, of Ashford, Kent, England; husband of Brenda Grant Amos, of London, England. Lance Corporal Amos was educated at Felstead, Essex, and Crystal Palace Engineering School, London, England.
Service Number: 28951
Age: 28
Force: Army
Unit: Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division: 16th Bn.
Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty’s Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916.
AMOS, CHARLES BYRON, LANCE-Corporal, No. 28951, E Company, 16th Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st Canadian Contingent, youngest son of Henry Amos, of New House Farm, Sheldwich, Faversham, Kent, by his wife, Ellen Mary, daughter of John Byron, of Kirkby Green, Sleaford, co. Lincoln; b. Littles Manor, Sheldwich, 12 Aug. 1886; educated Felsted School, Essex, and the Crystal Palace School of Engineering. Went to Canada in April, 1913, and on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, enlisted at Vancouver, B.C. He was killed in action near Ypres, 25 April, 1915. A comrade wrote: "Charlie was shot after we had recaptured the guns and were returning. We were sent out of one small fort and had to dig ourselves in about 100 yards in advance of the fort, and it was whilst doing this that Charlie got hit; in fact, we had just received the order to get back to the fort, and he and I were making our way down a small ditch when he fell; his death was instantaneous, as he was shot in the head. Our ranks were, indeed, terribly thinned by that attack, but as we have been told by Gen. Anderson that it was our brigade who stopped the whole of the German line advancing, we feel very proud, and my deepest regret is that Charlie was not spared to share the honours; but you can all feel proud of him. He died like a man, and a better friend or braver soldier there was not." At Felsted he made a name for athletics, winning the junior steeplechase one year and the senior twice. He also took the championship for sports. He married at Hillingdon, West Uxbridge, 25 Oct. 1911, Brenda Grant, daughter of Edward Bailey, 9, Belmont Road, Uxbridge, and had issue a daughter, Angela Mary, b. 1 Nov. 1913.
Date of Enlistment: September 22, 1914
Valcartier, Québec, Canada
Son of Henry Amos, of Ashford, Kent, England; husband of Brenda Grant Amos, of London, England. Lance Corporal Amos was educated at Felstead, Essex, and Crystal Palace Engineering School, London, England.
Age: 28
Force: Army
Unit: Canadian Infantry (Manitoba Regiment)
Division: 16th Bn.
Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty’s Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916.
AMOS, CHARLES BYRON, LANCE-Corporal, No. 28951, E Company, 16th Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 1st Canadian Contingent, youngest son of Henry Amos, of New House Farm, Sheldwich, Faversham, Kent, by his wife, Ellen Mary, daughter of John Byron, of Kirkby Green, Sleaford, co. Lincoln; b. Littles Manor, Sheldwich, 12 Aug. 1886; educated Felsted School, Essex, and the Crystal Palace School of Engineering. Went to Canada in April, 1913, and on the outbreak of war in Aug. 1914, enlisted at Vancouver, B.C. He was killed in action near Ypres, 25 April, 1915. A comrade wrote: "Charlie was shot after we had recaptured the guns and were returning. We were sent out of one small fort and had to dig ourselves in about 100 yards in advance of the fort, and it was whilst doing this that Charlie got hit; in fact, we had just received the order to get back to the fort, and he and I were making our way down a small ditch when he fell; his death was instantaneous, as he was shot in the head. Our ranks were, indeed, terribly thinned by that attack, but as we have been told by Gen. Anderson that it was our brigade who stopped the whole of the German line advancing, we feel very proud, and my deepest regret is that Charlie was not spared to share the honours; but you can all feel proud of him. He died like a man, and a better friend or braver soldier there was not." At Felsted he made a name for athletics, winning the junior steeplechase one year and the senior twice. He also took the championship for sports. He married at Hillingdon, West Uxbridge, 25 Oct. 1911, Brenda Grant, daughter of Edward Bailey, 9, Belmont Road, Uxbridge, and had issue a daughter, Angela Mary, b. 1 Nov. 1913.
Date of Enlistment: September 22, 1914
Valcartier, Québec, Canada
Son of Henry Amos, of Ashford, Kent, England; husband of Brenda Grant Amos, of London, England. Lance Corporal Amos was educated at Felstead, Essex, and Crystal Palace Engineering School, London, England.
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