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Stanford Rivers – Charles Savill [21200]

[21200] Private in the 2 nd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment.
He enlisted at Warley. He was killed in action on the 12 th
October 1916. He has no known grave and is
commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
He was born about 1886 in Stanford Rivers, the son of Betsy
Jane Savill.

At the time of the 1911 Census the family are living at Darby Row, High Ongar.
His mother is shown as a widow at this time. Charles’s occupation is given as
an under gardener.
His record on the Commonwealth War Graves site show he resided at Stroud
Green, Middlesex.

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