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Pte. Charles William Planson
British Army 13th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Wandsworth, London
(d.12th January 1918)
Since my Mum passed away in 2011 I've had a little cardboard box in my desk drawer, and it had some old coins in it, a few old monetary notes, a couple of old folded pieces of paper and a couple of tatty looking old ribbons with medals hanging on the end. I never really took much notice of them. Out of sight, out of mind. At the end of 2018, I was talking to my father in law about these old coins and decided to take the box around to show him, and when I looked at the actual old folded bits of paper, one of them was the letter to my great Gran which would have been sent with the 2 medals, which were the British War Medal and the Victory Medal for my great Grandad Charles Planson. He served with the Royal Fusiliers 13th Battalion attd. 234th Employment Coy in WW1 and died 12th of January 1918 aged 38 leaving behind a wife and 4 children. He is buried in Bailleu Communal Cemetery Extension in France and it is my ambition to visit his grave one day.
