William Charles Calthorpe

A Lance Corporal with the 9th Bn., William died on 26th of September 1918 at the age of 22. 

William was born at Lowestoft in 1896, a son of Susannah Calthorpe. In 1911 he was an inmate at Lothingland House (Workhouse), Oulton Broad. A Pension Record Card shows that his mother also resided at Lothingland House (Workhouse), Oulton Broad, after William's death. 

William was living at Mile End, London, when he enlisted in the Royal West Kent Regiment, service number 8117. William was transferred to the London Regiment and arrived in France on 21 June 1917 and he served with the 9th Battalion (Note the 9th Battalion was formed in France in February 1918 from the 1/9th and 2/9th Battalions: William must have served with one of these when he arrived in France).

Note that both the Army Register of Soldiers' Effects and the original Commonwealth War Graves Commission paperwork state that William had been posted to the 2nd King's Royal Rifle Corps at the time of his death. 

Based on information in the War Diary of the 2nd King's Royal Rifle Corps we can infer that William was posted to that Battalion on or before 13 September 1918 and it is probable that he was wounded some time between the 18th and 26th September. He died of his wounds at 47 Casualty Clearing Station.

William left his estate to Miss Mary Kerry.