Description
British War Medal, Private Charlton RAMC. Casualty.
Medal correctly impressed- 1656 Pte. J. Charlton. R.A.M.C.
Some service papers have survived for Charlton and digital copies are online. John Charlton lived at 55 Brooke Street, Coundon Grange, County Durham. Aged 22 he enlisted on the 24th September 1914 at Shildon, joining 2nd Northumbrian Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. (In 1917 he received a new ‘territorial’ service number; ‘388241’.)
Charlton arrived in France on the 14th October 1916, serving in the various units of the Northumbrian Field Ambulance. Wounded in action on the 11th April 1918 (gunshot graze to the left heal) but returned to duty that day. On the 27th May 1918 he was reported ‘missing, believed prisoner of war’—but in June he was recorded as ‘died’ on that date.
CWGC records: Son of Thomas Wellburn Charlton and Elizabeth Jane Charlton; husband of Lily Charlton, of 8, Short Cross St., New Shildon, Co. Durham. Died serving with the 1/1 Northumbrian Fiend Ambulance. Commemorated on the Soissons Memorial.
