Private Henry Charles Weight
| Date of Birth | c1889 |
|---|---|
| Age at Death | 28 |
| Date of Death | 23/04/1917 |
| Service Number | G/5912 |
| Military Service | Queen's (Royal West Surrey) Regiment |
| Merton Address | 18 Chapel Road Mitcham |
| Local Memorial | Mitcham War Memorial |
Additional Information
Charles Henry Weight who was born in 1889 and was the second child of Charles Edward, a plumber by occupation and his wife Ann. Henry Charles was baptized at the Parish Church of St’s Peter and Paul in Mitcham in 1890. The baptism records show that the family lived at 18 Chapel Road.
The 1901 Census reveals that the family were all born and resided in Mitcham Surrey. The Census also reveals that by 1901 the couple had a total of 8 children. The oldest child, Margaret was 15 years old, Charles Henry was 9 years old and the youngest of the Weight children was John aged just 3 months old.
The 1911 Census reveals that by then, Charles Edward and Ann Eliza had a total of 16 children of which 13 children were still alive. Margaret is not on the 1911 Census; Charles Henry, the eldest son at the age of 22 years was still living at home and was employed as a house painter.
Charles Henry married Harriet Eliza Welchman at Wandsworth in 1913.
He enlisted at Kingston upon Thames in Surrey and arrived in France 27th 0ctober 1915 as a private and was killed in action, He is commemorated on Stone number 4 at the Arras Memorial.
The memorial commemorates almost 35,000 servicemen from the United Kingdom, South Africa and New Zealand who died in the Arras sector between the spring of 1916 and 7 August 1918, the eve of the Advance to Victory, and have no known grave. The most conspicuous events of this period were the Arras offensive of April-May 1917, and the German attack in the spring of 1918. Canadian and Australian servicemen killed in these operations are commemorated by memorials at Vimy and Villers-Bretonneux. A separate memorial remembers those killed in the Battle of Cambrai in 1917.