No.33341, Private, Charles CAMPS
Aged 22
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Charles Camps was born in Swaffham Prior on 20th November 1894(Newmarket Q4-1894 3b:505), Baptised on 16th November 1898 in Wicken, son of Samuel and
Minnie CAMPS (née PARR).
1901 census...Aged 6, he was at Lodeside, Swaffham Prior with his father Samuel CAMPS [37] horsekeeper, born Chatteris; his mother Minnie [31], born Upware; brothers Harry [3] born Swaffham Prior, and Fred [2] born Wicken and widowed aunt Elizabeth DYSON [73] born Haddenham. 1911 census...Aged 16, boy on farm, he was at Little Lane, Reach with his widower father and brothers Harry and Fred. On 27th December 1915 in Burwell, he married Eliza Ethel JENNINGS [28], daughter of Charles JENNINGS. Her address after his death is recorded as Crown Hall Farm, Burwell |
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He enlisted in Newmarket.
The Yorkshire Regiment has had many name changes, but the "Green Howards" is the best known. The 6th Battalion arrived in France from Gallipoli, via Egypt in July 1916. The 6th Battalion were on the Somme, in operations in the Ancre Valley and near a village called Beaucourt Sur L'Ancre, on the 18th January. They had 14 killed on the 17, just Charles Camps on the 18th and two men the following day.
and also on the war memorial in Burwell, Reach and Swaffham Prior Little Chapel in the Fen. click here to go to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website for full cemetery/memorial details |
