CHARLES HENRY GILDER

Charles is remembered on the war memorial at St. Margaret’s Church, Ipswich – recorded under the surname Steel.

Born: 10^th November 1890, at 4, Welcomes Cottages, Hayes Lane, Kenley, Surrey.

Baptised on the 1^st February 1891, at St. John the Evangelist Church, Coulsdon, Surrey – family home Welcomes Cottages, Hayes Lane, Kenley.

Died: 9^th September 1916; age: 27; KiA.

Date of Entry Therein: 13^th August 1914 – France.

Rank: Corporal; Service Number: 8694.

Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment, 1^st Battalion.

Medals Awarded: Victory, British War and 1914 Star + Clasp.

Memorial Reference:

Pier and Face 5A and 5B.

Thiepval Memorial,

Somme,

France.

Relatives Notified and Address: Son of Mrs. Edith Steel, of 10, Charles Street, Ipswich; husband of Mrs. Ethel Hackett, of 895, De Laune Street, Kennington, London.

CENSUS

1891   4, Welcome Cottages, Hayes, Lane, Kenley, Surrey.

Charles was 4 months old and living with his parents.

Henry Gilder, 22, a Farm Servant, born Hatfield Peverel, Essex.

Edith Gilder (nee White), born Pitsea, Essex.

1901   Godstone Road, Warlingham, Surrey.

Charles was 10 years old and living with his adopted parents.

William Henry Simmons, 48, a Foreman at the Lime Works, born Betchworth, Surrey.

Mary Ann Simmons (nee Paddick), 47, born Banstead, Surrey.

1911   Cambridge Barracks, Portsmouth, Hampshire.

Charles was 21 years old and a Soldier, ranked a Private for the 1^st Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment.

Charles’s father, Henry Gilder, a carter, died on the 21st May 1892, of Phthisis Pulmonalis, at his home – 9, Welcome Terrace, Kenley, Coulsdon, and was laid to rest on the 26^th May, at St. Luke’s Churchyard, Whyteleafe, Surrey

In 1898, at Hoo, Kent, Charles’s mother, Edith Gilder, married Thomas William Standard Steel, born 1868, in Salcombe Regis, Devon. Thomas was a Coast Guard and a Boatman. On his retirement from the Coast Guard, he, Edith, and their son Thomas George Standard Steel (born February 1899) moved to Ipswich and made their family home at 10, Charles Street, Ipswich. In Ipswich, Thomas was employed as a Gentleman’s Servant.

On Boxing Day, 1915, at Christ Church, Blackfriars Road, Southwark, London, 26 year old Charles Gilder, a Private for the Gloucestershire Regiment, 1^st Battalion, of 12, Prices Street, Southwark, married 19 year old Ethel Thompson, of 3, Prices Street, Southwark, born August 1896, Southwark – – daughter of Frederick Thompson, a tennis bat maker, and Florence Rose Manning Thompson (nee Haddock), of 110, Victoria Dwellings, Clerkenwell Road, Clerkenwell, London.

Soldiers’ Effects to Ethel Gilder – widow.