Photo: Ilustrated Chronicle April 1915
Photo: Angela Conroy
Medal Index Card
In Elswick Cemetery is a family headstone which reads:-
For Home and Country
To the memory of
Sgt. Henry Charlton R.A.M.C.
Attached 4th N.F.
Killed in Action Aug 3 1916 Aged 24
Burial place of
John Charlton
Died August (28?) 1897 Aged 63
Also Sarah Widow of John Charlton
Died Aug (7?) 1902 Aged 65
Also Margaret A. Widow of
W. H. Waugh
Henry Charlton was in the 1st (Northumbrian) Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps and was attached to the 1st/4th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers. He was the Grandson of John and Sarah Charlton, of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
He was a member of the Kingsley Terrace Primitive Methodist church.
Henry Charlton is remembered at Elswick on E35.15
