No.33341, Private, Charles CAMPS
Aged 22
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Charles Camps was born in Swaffham Fen on 20th November 1894 (Newmarket Q4-1894 3b:505), baptised in Wicken on 16th November 1898 son of Samuel and Minnie
CAMPS (née PARR).
1901 census...Aged 6, he was at Lode Side, Swaffham Prior with his father Samuel CAMPS [37] horse keeper,born Chatteris; his mother Minnie [31] born Upware; brothers Harry [3] born Swaffham Prior and Fred [2] born in Wicken, and great aunt Elizabeth DYSON [73] born Haddenham. 1911 census...Aged 16, a boy on farm, he was at Little Lane, Reach with his widower father and brothers Harry and Fred. His mother had died early in 1905 and is buried in Reach cemetery. On 27th December 1915, in St. Mary's, Burwell, he married Eliza Ethel JENNINGS [28] and they lived at Crown Hall Farm, Burwell. |
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He enlisted in Newmarket. "Soldiers Died" has him resident of Burwell. The Yorkshire regiment is better known as the "Green Howards"
The 6th Battalion were on the Somme, in operations in the Ancre Valley and near a village called Beaucourt Sur L'Ancre, on the 18th January 1917. They had 14 killed on the 17, just Charles Camps on the 18th and two men the following day.
and also on the war memorials at Swaffham Prior, Reach and Little Wilbraham. click here to go to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website for full cemetery/memorial details |
