CHARLES EDWARD BERRY
Born: 1898, Ipswich.
Died: 22nd April 1915; age 17; KiA.
Residence: 9, Angel Lane, Ipswich.
Enlistment Location: Ipswich.
Date of Entry Therein: 27th December 1914 – France.
Rank: Private; Service Number: 3/8880.
Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 2nd Battalion.
Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.
Charles was killed at the same time as James Herbert Pallant.
Grave Reference:
Vierstraat,
West-Vlaanderen,
Belgium.
JAMES HERBERT PALLANT was ranked a Private, 9008, for the Suffolk Regiment, 2nd Battalion. He was 20 years old and the second son of Alfred George Pallant, a corporation labourer, and Emily Pallant (nee Cutting), of 4, St. Edmunds Place, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.
CENSUS
1901 Siloam Place, Ipswich.
Charles was 3 years old and living with his parents & siblings.
Abraham Ebenezer Berry, 42, a Quay Labourer, born Ipswich.
Charlotte Maria Berry (nee Leggett), 41, born Ipswich.
Frank Berry, 15, born Ipswich.
Albert Victor Berry, 10, born Ipswich.
Nellie Victoria Berry, 1, born Ipswich.
1911 28, Fore Hamlet, Ipswich.
Charles was 13 years old and living with his widowed father.
Abraham, 53, a Labourer – Coal.
Charles’ mother, Charlotte Maria Berry, died on New Year’s Eve, 1908, in Ipswich, and was buried on the 7th January 1909 in Section X at Ipswich Old Cemetery.
Soldiers’ Effects to Abraham Berry – father.
In 1899, at Ipswich, Charles’ sister Gertrude Berry, born 1880, Ipswich, married Benjamin Henry Barber. Benjamin lost his life during the Boer War. He was ranked a Driver in the Royal Field Artillery when, on the 18th March 1900, he died of Enteric Fever, aged 28.
THE SUFFOLK REGIMENT 2nd Battalion:
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