SPIERS Charles

  • First Name(s):
    Charles 
  • Surname:
    SPIERS
  • Service Number:
    15234
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Worcestershire Regiment
  • Battalion:
    9th Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    10th August 1915
  • Age At Death:
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Helles Memorial, Turkey, Panel 104 to 113.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:
    Unknown
Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

SPIERS Charles Is Named On These Memorials

Great Hampton Parochial School now in Hampton St Andrews C of E First School
Hampton St Andrew’s Church WW1 Memorial
Hampton War Memorial

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Hampton St Andrew’s Church WW1 Memorial with the additional information: Worc Regt

Further Information About SPIERS Charles

Evesham Journal and Four Shires Advertiser, Saturday, September 18, 1915:
Pte. C.W. Spiers, of the 9th Worcesters, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Spiers, of Brookside, Hampton, was killed in action in the Dardanelles on August 10th, as reported in our War Notes last week.  The report includes a photograph of Charles Spiers.

The clock on Hampton St Andrew’s Church is a war memorial to WW1 and is inscribed with the words: War Memorial 1914-18.

The tenor bell is inscribed “also in memory of the sons of Hampton who died for the sacred cause of liberty and freedom”.

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Credits: Evesham Journal and parents details researched and transcribed by Peter Stewart. Inscriptions on the church clock and the church bells courtesy of John Smith.