Waite, C
CHARLES WAITE
Remembered with honour Arras Memorial: Bay 5.
He enlisted in Watford; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 26 July 1915, and was killed or died of wounds received in action during the Battle of Arras – an unsuccessful attack on Cherisy. Unfortunately, Charles’ Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Son of Elizabeth Jane (nee GRANT) WAITE of Watford, and the late Richard Walter WAITE.
His parents married 1872 in the Hastings, Sussex, district. Richard died 1910 in Watford aged 64, and was buried 5 December in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; Elizabeth died 1928 in Watford aged 76, and was buried 1 February, also in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
Charles was born 23 May 1892 in Watford, and baptised 6 September 1893 at St Mary’s, Watford. He resided in Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 8 he lived in Watford, with his parents and three siblings. On the 1911 Census, a bricklayer’s labourer aged 18, he still lived in Watford, with his widowed mother and three siblings.
Service number
19164Rank
PrivateUnit
7th [or 17th] BattalionRegiment
Date of death
on or since 03/05/1917Age at death
25Place of death
Memorial(s)
- 1st S.W. Herts Scout Troop [in St Mary's Parish Church Watford] (4)
- Abbot's Langley Herts War Memorial (17)
- Aldbury Herts War Memorial (1)
- Aldenham Herts War Memorial (located in Letchmore Heath Herts) (8)
- All Saints Church Croxley Green Herts (12)
- All Saints Church Harrow Weald Middx (2)
- All Saints Church Hertford (1)
- All Saints Church King's Langley Herts (1)
- All Saints Church Leavesden Herts (31)
- All Saints Church Witham Essex (3)