Lance Corporal 241419 Charles Edwin Speakman
Regiment/Unit: South Lancashire Regiment - 2nd/5th Bn.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Age at death: 22
Date of death: 30th of December 1917
Born: St Helens, Lancs
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Tyne Cot Memorial - Panel 92 to 93 and 162A.
Family details:
Son of the late James Octavious and Elizabeth Speakman.
Census details:
1901 - Charles E 5 is living with his widowed mother Elizabeth 30 and brother James Matthias 5. The family are living with Elizabeth's mother Sarah Ann Potter 60 at 18 Chorley Street, St Helens 1911 - Charles E 15 is employed as an Apprentice Bottle Maker. He is living with his step father Moses Findley 50, his mother Elizabeth Findley 40 and brother James Mathias 19 at 22 Silkstone Street, St Helens
[pic]imgs/sppics/CE_Speakman_SLR.jpg[/pic][caption]The inscription for Lance Corporal Charles E Speakman on the Tyne Cot Memorial
(Photograph courtesy of Ste M.)[/caption]
