Private 56596 Charles Rowlands
The St Helens Newspaper & Advertiser
Courtesy Ste M
Regiment/Unit: Royal Welsh Fusiliers - 1st Bn.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Previous Reg/Num: 33376, Shrops Light Infantry.
Age at death: 27
Date of death: 1st of October 1917
Born: Chester
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Tyne Cot Memorial - Panel 63 to 65.
Family details:
Son of Edward and Mary Ann Rowlands, of 25, Powell St. Sutton Oak, St. Helens, Lancs.
Census details:
1891 - 1 year old Charles is living at 10 Shepherd Street, Chester with parents Edward (35), Mary A (31) and two siblings: George H (9), Edward (5). 1901 - 11 years old Charles is living at 25 Prescott Street, Sutton, St Helens with parents Edward (43), Mary A (41) and five siblings: George H (19), Edward (15), Mabel (8), William (4), Alice (9 Mths). [b]Note:[/b] Prescott Street was later renamed Powell Street. 1911 Census - The Rowlands family, natives of Chester, lived at 25, Powell Street in Sutton. Mary Ann Rowlands was a 51 year old widow and lived with her three sons Edward (25), Charles (21) and William (14) and daughter Alice (10). Charles was a Wagon Sheet Repairer.
Notes:
[url=lmem.php?lmem=1]Remembered on All Saints War Memorial, Sutton, St Helens[/url] [url=lmem.php?lmem=22]Also Remembered on Sutton St Nicholas's War Memorial[/url]
[url=lmem.php?lmem=1]Remembered on All Saints War Memorial, Sutton, St Helens[/url] [url=lmem.php?lmem=22]Also Remembered on Sutton St Nicholas's War Memorial[/url]
[pic]imgs/WW1_memorials/TongueP_RWFs.jpg[/pic][caption]The panel on the Tyne Cot Memorial bearing the inscription for Private Peter Tongue
(Photograph courtesy of Ste M.)[/caption]
