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213309Lance Corporal Hubert Cherrett
British Army 1st/4th Batn. A Company South Lancashire Regiment
from:Warrington
(d.4th Jun 1917)
My Grandfather Hubert Cherrett joined the army in February 1915 and was sent to France in July 1916. He married my grandmother, Margaret Cunningham, on the 30th June 1916, just two weeks before he was sent to the front - they never saw each other again and he never met his daughter, Constance, my mother. He was killed on the 4th June 1917, whilst trying to save the life of a comrade. I have a letter written by the Company Sargent Major recommending him for a bravery medal; it gives in great detail how he tried to save the life of a comrade who was injured. However, as he died of his wounds, this letter was never sent and instead was handed to his Brother, Thomas, who was in the same regiment; he subsequently brought this letter home with him and we still have it nearly 100 years later - I have attached this letter to this document. I know that his death devastated his family. I have also attached a cutting from the local newspaper in Warrington and pictures of my grandmother, with my mother as a baby and a picture of Lance Corporal Hubert Cherrett in his uniform. I have looked on the Commonwealth War Graves and cannot find any mention of a Sapper Robson (who was the man my grandfather rescued); I would like to think that he survived and that my grandfather did not die in vain.
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