Pte Charles C Guttridge 16 Dorset Regt d.2/9/18

[Will O'Brien]

As per CWGC

Name: GUTTRIDGE, CHARLES CLEMENTS

Initials: C C

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment: Devonshire Regiment

Unit Text: 16th (Royal Devon and R. North Devon Yeomanry) Bn.

Age: 33

Date of Death: 02/09/1918

Service No: 345957

Additional information: Eldest son of Charles William and Charlotte Guttridge; husband of Mary Guttridge, of 92, Anerley Rd., Upper Norwood, London.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: III. B. 30.

Cemetery: PERONNE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

[Will O'Brien]

& the cemetery info

Cemetery: PERONNE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

Country: France

Locality: Somme

Location Information: From Bapaume take the N17 to Peronne. On entering Peronne, turn right towards the hospital. On reaching the hospital, which will be on the right, take the small road opposite and the communal cemetery is at the end of this road on the left. The extension is on the south-west side of the cemetery.

Historical Information: Peronne was taken by the German on 24 September 1914. On 18 March 1917, the 40th and 48th Divisions captured the town, but it was recovered by the Germans on the 23rd March 1918. It changed hands for the last time on 1 September 1918, when it was taken by the 2nd Australian Division The cemetery extension was begun by the 48th (South Midland) Division in March 1917, used by the Germans in 1918, and resumed by Australian units in September 1918. At the Armistice it contained 177 graves, now in Plots I and II. It was then enlarged when graves were brought in from the battlefields north and east of Peronne and from certain small cemeteries in the area. There are now 1,579 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the extension. 220 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to seven casualties known or believed to be buried among them, and ten buried in other cemeteries whose graves could not be found. The extension also contains five Second World War burials and 97 German war graves. The adjoining communal cemetery contains the grave of one airman of the First World War, killed in August 1914. The extension was designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield.

No. of Identified Casualties: 1405

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Will:

From the 1891 Census:

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Name Age in 1891 Birthplace Relationship to head-of-house Civil parish County

Guttridge, Alice 4 Bayswater, London Daughter Paddington London

Guttridge, Charles 7 Bayswater, London Son Paddington London

Guttridge, Charlotte 38 Chappel, Essex Wife Paddington London

Guttridge, Frederick 2 Bayswater, London Son Paddington London

Guttridge, Matilda 9 Bayswater, London Daughter Paddington London

Guttridge, William 38 Blackwell, London Head Paddington London