GARBETT Charles

  • First Name(s):
    Charles 
  • Surname:
    GARBETT
  • Service Number:
    136029
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Corps:
    Canadian Expeditionary Force
  • Regiment:
    Quebec Regiment
  • Battalion:
    42nd Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    15th August 1916
  • Age At Death:
  • Cause of Death:
    Died of wounds
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France, Grave VIII.B. 141.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:
    Unknown
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GARBETT Charles Is Named On These Memorials

Malvern the Wyche All Saints Church
Malvern WW1 War Memorial
Worcester Guildhall

Further Information About GARBETT Charles

Charles Garbett enlisted in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force on 24th July 1915 in Toronto, Canada. On his attestation form he gave his date of birth as 19th September 1873 in Droitwich, Worcestershire, England, his occupation as a dyer and his next of kin as his wife, Alice Garbett, 5 Paling Cottages, Lower Wyche, Malvern, Worcestershire. Charles was 5 feet 5½ inches tall with a medium dark complexion, brown eyes and dark hair with grey.

Charles sailed from Halifax, Canada on S.S. Empress of Britain on 29th March 1916, arriving in Liverpool, England on 9th April 1916. He proceeded overseas with his unit on 8th June 1916, arriving in France on 9th June. On 12th August 1916 Charles was admitted to No 13 General Hospital, Boulogne with gun shot wounds to his head, left leg and foot. He died of wounds on 15th August 1916.

National Archives of Canada Reference: RG150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 3399 – 12.

The Canada War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty) records the following information on Private Charles Garbett:
“Died of Wounds”. (Gun shot wound scalp and left leg) At No. 13 General Hospital Boulogne.

Appears in the Worcester/Worcestershire Roll of Honour Book for army casualties located in Worcester Cathedral.

Malvern News 26th August 1916
Pte C Garbett, serving with a Canadian Battalion, who was formerly employed at the Tudor Hotel has been severely wounded in the head. His wife lives at the Wyche.

Malvern News 2nd September 1916
Pte Charles Garbett, has died in hospital at Boulogne – he suffered a gunshot wound to the head and left leg.

A photograph of Private C. Garbett can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 28th July 1917, available at Worcestershire Archives.

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