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Cpl. Charles Arthur Balshaw
British Army 2nd Pontoon Park Royal Engineers
from:Lowton, Lancashire
(d.1st Dec 1917 )
Charles Balshaw was born in Wigan and lived in Newton-le-willows, Lancs. He enlisted with the South Lancashire Regiment in Warrington. Charles was killed in the land between the two rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, Mesopotamia, building a pontoon. His body was never found.
Charles was the brother of my Grandma Elizabeth Ellen Balshaw. Her husband Ben Hartley was a colliery motor driver above ground at Doncaster. He was a Medic in the 1st World War and in 1916 was shot through left lung and stomach during a cease fire on the Somme. He died in 1936.