Second Lieutenant, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment), 8th Battalion
Died of wounds on 12 November 1918, aged 23
CWGC: "Son of Charles and Alice F. Field, of Hertford."
Remembered at Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
Information from the 1911 census
In 1911 Charles Abel Field, aged 16, born in Arlesey, Bedfordshire, was a junior clerk in manufacturing. He lived with his parents, Charles Field, 39, a grocer and provision dealer from Hertford, Hertfordshire, and mother Alice Field, 43 and also from Hertford, who worked in the business. There were two other siblings: Ethel Olive May Field, 12, born in Clerkenwell, east London, and Herbert Edward Field, 9, born in Clapton, east London. The family lived in four rooms at 235 Rushmore Road, Clapton Park.