Pauline Priano has submitted the following:-
Charles Edward Haw was born 1896 in Stanhope County Durham, one of 7 children, 6 boys and 1 deceased (gender unknown), born to John Pearson Haw 1863 born in Wath near Ripon, Yorkshire and Mary Ann Mason 1865 of Mt. Pleasant, County Durham. John and Mary Ann were married August 6th 1893 in Stanhope, County Durham. Charles Edward’s father was employed by the County Council as a police constable (No. 407), in 1911 the family was living at 10 Railway Street, Craghead, Charles Edward, aged 15, was employed at the colliery, below ground, as a driver.
Charles Edward Haw enlisted in Newcastle upon Tyne as Private 1081 19th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers formed November 16th 1914. February 8th 1915 it became the 2nd Tyneside Pioneer Battalion, by July it was attached to the 35th Division. Mobilised by the War Office August 1915 and after final training the battalion embarked for France landing at La Havre, January 1916 and was sent to the Western Front. They participated on the Somme in the Battle of Albert July 1st-13th 1916, Third Battle of Ypres 1917 and the First Battle of the Somme March 21st-April 5th 1918 followed by The Hundred Days Offensive, the final period of the First World War.
The Register of Soldiers Effects report that on November 4th 1918 Private Charles Haw was, “missing presumed dead,” whereas the Grave Registration Report of his burial records the date of his death as November 13th 1918, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission has registered the previous date although Private Haw does have an official grave.
Private 19/1081 Charles Haw is registered as having been killed November 4th 1918, one week before the armistice, he was 22 years old and single. He is interred in Fontaine-Au-Bois Communal Cemetery, Department of the North, France, grave D18. His mother Mary Ann paid 3 shillings and 2 pence for the inscription of the words, “Dearly Loved,” to be added to his military headstone. She received as his beneficiary all monies due to him, a pension and his awards of the British War Medal and Victory Medal which were sent to the family’s home address of 8 Shafto Terrace, Craghead, County Durham.
In God’s safe keeping. Rest In Peace.
Charles Edward Haw is remembered at Craghead on C120.01 and C120.04
