Carole Fife has provided the following:
Charles is the elder brother of William Frederick Batchelor. Charles's military record shows that he was born in Birmingham and enlisted in Bedlington. His parents were William Henry Batchelor and Ada Elizabeth Roberts, who married in West Bromwich but who moved to Heaton, Newcastle, when Charles was still a baby. William and Ada had four children, but William appears to have died about 1890, so that in the 1891 census Ada is living in Heaton with her sister Edith for support. In the 1901 census the family were living with Ada's sister Sarah and her family in Byker, with Charles referred to as Harry and working as a grocer's porter. Charles married Wilhelmina in 1908 and they had a daughter Jane in the following year. In 1911 the family were living in Guide Post and Charles was working as a groom for a draper and grocer., but he must later have gone to work at the pit because he is named on the Bedlington Coal Company's Roll of Honour. As he served with the Tyneside Irish Charles is named in Ireland's Casualties of War.
Morpeth Herald 23/11/1917 carries a brief obituary:
ROLL OF HONOUR
BATCHELOR.- Killed in action, on April 25th, 1917, aged 37 years, C.H. Batchelor, N.F., dearly beloved husband of Wilhemina [sic] Batchelor, Hunns [sic] Buildings, Choppington.
Morpeth Herald 30/11/1917 carries the following: C.H. Batchelor, Hunn’s Buildings, Choppington, has been killed in action.
He was the husband of Wilhelmina Batchelor, of Huns Buildings, Scotland Gate, Choppington.
He is remembered at Choppington as Batchelor, H. on C36.01 and C36.04 and at Bedlington on B15.06
