Lance Corporal Albert F T Charles

Albert Frederick Thomas Charles, husband of Violet Charles, of Catford, London, enlisted into The South Lancashire Regiment and volunteered for airborne forces.

Lance Corporal Charles successfully completed parachute training on course 87 at RAF Ringway on 13 to 25 October 1943. He was posted to A Company, 13th (Lancashire) Parachute Battalion.

He fought in the Normandy campaign and took part in the 6th Airborne Division response to the German counter-offensive in the Ardennes, during the winter of 1944-5.

22 year old L/Cpl Charles was killed in action, during the Battle of Bure on 3 January 1945, He was given a field burial in Bure, Tellin and later reinterred in Hotton War Cemetery on 4 June 1947. 

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