Carole Fife has provided the following:
Charles was born in 1894 at Bebside Furnace, the second of five children to George and Grace Tweddle. His father, a miner, died in 1904 and the family moved from Wood Row, Bebside Furnace, to Bridge End. By 1911 Charles and his brother Andrew were working at the pit and his mother was taking in lodgers to help make ends meet. In the summer of 1914 he married Phyllis burgaon and they had two sons, James and George. Charles, living at Gladstone Street, Blyth, and working at Bebside Colliery enlisted in Blyth and joined the 21st Northumberland Fusiliers (2nd Tyneside Scottish), An article in the Blyth News of May 1917 entitled “Popular Local Soldier's Death” quotes from a letter from 2/Lt. Forcer to Charles's sister telling us that Charles died in the Battle of Arras. He was thought at first to be only slightly wounded, but turned out to have a fractured skull. He was taken to one of the hospitals at Etaples and died of his wounds. The same page of the newspaper includes a death notice:
“TWEDDLE – Died of wounds received in action April 12th 1917, aged 22 years and 6 months, Private Charles Tweddle N.F. the dearly beloved husband of Phyllis Tweddle No. 21 Gladstone Street, Cowpen Quay, Blyth” followed by a verse.
He is remembered in Bedlington Station on B163.04
