Remembered today on GWF

[Malcolm]

Surname CHARLES

Firstname James

Service number 4/7460

Date of death 15/08/1914

Decoration

Place of birth Greenock

Other 4th Bn.

SNWM roll THE ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS

Rank Pte

Theatre of death Home.

Name: CHARLES

Initials: J

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Private

Regiment: Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

Unit Text: 4th Bn.

Date of Death: 15/08/1914

Service No: 7460

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: Mil. Con. C. 3581.

Cemetery: PLYMOUTH (WESTON MILL) CEMETER

Cemetery: PLYMOUTH (WESTON MILL) CEMETERY

Country: United Kingdom

Locality: Devon

Historical Information: During the First World War, Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse contained between them the Royal Dockyard, Royal Naval Barracks (known as H.M.S. Vivid), the Royal Marine Barracks of the Plymouth Division, and naval and military hospitals. For the duration of the war, Devonport was made headquarters of the Auxiliary Patrol Area. Plymouth was a naval station second only to Portsmouth during the Second World War. Devonport was also an important military station and there was a R.A.F station at Mount Batten, opposite Plymouth. Plymouth (Weston Mill) Cemetery contains 398 burials of the First World War, 1 being unidentified. Approximately half are in the naval and military war graves plots north-east of the chapel, the rest are scattered. The total includes special memorials to two casaulties buried in Stoke Damerel Church Cemetery whose graves could no longer be maintained. Second World War burials in the cemetery number 556, 11 of which are unidentified. Of these, 111 of the earlier graves filled the existing naval and military plots. A further plot was then set aside for service graves and 317 of the burials were made there. The rest of the war graves are scattered. The cemetery also contains 14 non-war service burials and 36 war graves of other nationalities, 25 of them Polish.

No. of Identified Casualties: 992

The 4th Battalion Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders was raised in Paisley on 4th August 1914 and then went to Devonport. November 1914 to Sunderland. February 1915 to Plymouth. May 1915 to Edinburgh. July 1918 to Dunbar. In the Forth Garrison from May 1915.

Aye

Malcolm

[Will O'Brien]

Raising a glass to James' memory tonight