218072 Cpl. Charles Thorpe British Army 13th Btn. Middlesex Regiment from:84 Scales Road, Tottenham, London (d.3rd Aug 1917) Charles Thorpe served with the Middlesex Regiment during WW1. He died on the 16th August 1917 and is remembered on Panels 49 and 51, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. Date of death in the Commonwealth War Graves list is 3rd August 1917 and his unit was the 13th Battalion.
Charlie was my great uncle on my maternal side. He was serving in the same battalion as his brother George. The family story goes that George's CO said to him that there was another Thorpe coming up to the front. George asked if his name was Charles. It was and he asked if he could go and see him. His CO permitted it. George found him, his mum (Kate) always use to say if he had money he'd always be safe, so George took him into the local village to buy him a money belt to keep his money safe. That was the 15th of August that was the last he saw of him. It was said he died just outside Polygon Wood. His body was never found and his name is on the Menin Gate.
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