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Pte. Charles Henry Barton MM
British Army 10th Field Ambulance, 4th Div. Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Wigan, Lancs.
Charles Boston was awarded the Military Medal for eight hours hard work dressing wounds in no-mans land at Redan Ridge where, although badly injured by shrapnel, he managed to drag back a badly wounded comrade to British lines. He was stretchered to an aid post and shipped back to hospital in England. Charles survived the battle and died at home in the Isle of Man in 1947.