Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

17 October - 11 November 1918. The final stage of the British advance saw them cross the Selle and the Sambre rivers as the relentless pressure was kept on the retreating Germans. By the 11th November 1918 the British army had returned to Mons, where it all started for them back in August 1914 when it made its first contact with the Germans, and where the war stopped when the Armistice was declared on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

Detail :

G65433 Private Charles Edward Leary 1st Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. Died of wounds in France 15th October, 1918. Formerly Gs4/32954, East Surrey Regiment.

Masonic :

He was initiated into Light in Adjoodhia Lodge No. 836 at Fyzabad Bengal, in 1909. He was a Sergeant at this time located in the local garrison. He resigned from this Lodge 31st August, 1914.

He joined Sarju Lodge No. 3061 also located at Fyzabad, Bengal on the 1st December, 1909, also listed as a Sergeant. He resigned from this lodge 1st April, 1914.

On 20th May, 1911 he reappears joining Invicta Lodge No. 2440 at Chakrata, again as a Sergeant and resident at Kailana, but he had resigned from this Lodge prior to the other two, on 14th November, 1911. He doesnt appear to have been a subscribing member of a lodge at the time of his death.

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley