254726 Pte. Charles Littlemore British Army 4th Battalion Cheshire Regiment from:Middlewich, Cheshire (d.4th May 1917) Charles Littlemore was born in 1897, the eldest child of 5. His parents were William Littlemore and Ann Fradley. His mother died in 1914 and his father did not remarry until after Charles lost his life.
On 4th of May 1917, the Transport Transylvania, proceeding to Salonika with reinforcements, was sunk by torpedo off Cape Vado, a few kilometres south of Savona, Liguria, with the loss of more than 400 lives. The bodies recovered at Savona were buried 2 days later, from the hospital of San Paulo, in a special plot in the town cemetery. Others are buried elsewhere in Italy, Monaco, Spain and France. Savona town cemetery contains 85 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, all but 2 of them casualties of the Transylvania. There are also a number of seamen buried in the cemetery whose deaths were not due to war service. Within the cemetery of the Savona Memorial, which commemorates a further 275 casualties who died when the Transylvania went down, but whose graves are not known.
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