Private Charles Rawlinson
36634 9th Leicester Regiment
Born Nelson, enlisted Nelson
Killed in Action 1st October 1917, aged 31
Buried in Buttes New British Cemetery Belgium - XX.B.8
Burnley Express 24th October 1917

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"This is my grandfather who I have just discovered on the Burnley Great War website. I think his parents were born in Burnley but he was born in Nelson and enlisted there. He joined the East Lancs but was transferred at some date to the Leicesters. A visit to East Lancs museum couldn't identify when. He worked at the Cotton Exchange in Manchester but sadly have little other information about him apart from a few family memories. Even a paid researcher could only give me the movements of the Leicesters on the days around his death. My grandmother wouldn't speak of him and regretfully I wasn't interested then."