Chartres, William John Wearing

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Cemetery: Sangro River War Cemetery

Country: Italy

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Rank: Lieutenant

Force: Army

Official Number: EC/5665

Unit: 1st Bn. 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force)

Country of Service: Indian

Details: 13/12/43 XI. B. 1. This dedication is from his surviving cousins (in 2014) Nancy Stockwell (his very best friend), Derek Tonkin and Julia Quirk who both knew him when they were young. John Chartres was educated at Wilson's Grammar School in London, where he joined the Officer Cadet Training Unit. After leaving school he went to London University which at the beginning of the Second World War was evacuated to Bristol. Thanks to his O.C.T.U. training, he was commissioned into the Indian Army as a Second Lieutenant and sent to Bangalore in India. He joined the 1st Battalion 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles and saw service in Burma, the Middle East and the Mediterranean before arriving in Italy. He was killed while out on reconnaissance just south of Monte Cassino. He was then an acting Captain in the 1/5th Royal Gurkha Rifles - just 22 years of age as he was born on 4 November 1921 and died on 13 December 1943. John Chartres was descended from a Huguenot Protestant family in France which sought refuge in Ireland in the early 18th Century to escape persecution. The family is mentioned in Burke’s Irish Family Records. He was the youngest of three brothers, who included Reginald and Arthur (Richard Arthur Carew) the eldest, who was the father of the present (2014) Bishop of London, the Rt Revd & Rt Hon Richard Chartres DD KCVO.

Photograph by Steve & sandra Rogers, Bernard Warden

Sangro River War Cemetery - Chartres, William John Wearing

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