CHALLONER Titus

  • First Name(s):
    Titus 
  • Surname:
    CHALLONER
  • Service Number:
    831410
  • Rank:

    Gunner

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Artillery
  • Corps:
    Royal Field Artillery
  • Brigade:
    306th Brigade
  • Unit:
    B Battery
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    13th October 1917
  • Age At Death:
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Brown's Copse Cemetery, Roeux, France, Grave IV. B. 31.
  • Place of Birth:
    Lye
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:
    Unknown
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CHALLONER Titus Is Named On These Memorials

Lye and Wollescote War Memorial
Lye Christ Church Window

Further Information About CHALLONER Titus

There are various spellings of this casualty’s surname: Challinor at birth, Challonor 1891 census, Chaloner 1911 census and Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Challoner Soldiers Died in the Great War and on memorial.

1911 Census
20 Salt Brook Road, Lye
Alfred Chaloner, head, aged 54
Alice Chaloner, wife, aged 53
Titus Chaloner, son, aged 23, Labourer Ironworks, born Cradley Heath, Staffordshire
William Chaloner, son, aged 12
Elsie Chaloner, daughter, aged 10
Bert Chaloner, son, aged 9

Titus Challoner enlisted in the artillery and was posted to 306 Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery.  They fought on the Arras front in 1917 and remained there in the autumn of that year.  It was not a very active front while the Third Battle of Ypres was continuing but a great deal of artillery was engaged in counter-battery work.  Probably as a result of this kind of action Gunner Titus Chaloner was killed in action on the 13th October.

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Credits: Researched by The Black Country Society. 1911 Census researched by Sandra Taylor.