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3936   Private Charles Frederick Marshall
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Dated added: 30/12/2015   Last updated: 15/08/2021
Personal Details
Regiment/Service: 8th Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers (British Army)
Date Of Birth: 17/08/1889
Died: 09/09/1916 (Killed in Action)
Age: 26
Summary      
Charles Frederick Marshall was the youngest son of Charles and Mary Marshall. He was born on 17th August 1889. Charles was the youngest of three children, all born in the Omagh area. His mother when he was young. His father was a teacher. Frederick attended the Royal School Dungannon. Frederick emigrated to the United States of America. In 1914 Frederick returned to Ireland to enlist. Private Charles Frederick Marshall was serving with ‘A’ Company of the 8th Battalion of the Royal Munster Fusiliers when he was killed in action on Saturday 9th September 1916 in France.
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Cemetery Details
Grave
Cemetery: Thiepval Memorial
  Thiepval, Somme, 
Grave Ref: Face 16c
CWGC Casualty 804816
Summary      
The Thiepval Memorial will be found on the D73, next to the village of Thiepval, off the main Bapaume to Albert road (D929). Each year a major ceremony is held at the memorial on 1 July. The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. It is near the village of Thiepval, Picardy in France. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, Thiepval has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century"
Local Institute / Local Book Details

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1 Royal School Dungannon Book 40
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1 1901 Census lists Marshall family Lists Chas Frederick as age 11 living with the family at house 64 in Six Mile Cross Town, Tyrone
2 1911 Census lists Marshall family Does not list Frederick as living with the family at house 57 in SixMileCross, Tyrone
3 National Archives of Ireland Last Will and Testament of Charles Frederick Marshall
4 National Archives UK Medal Card can be purchased here
5 Ulster-Scots Community Network W F Marshall Book of poems
6 Wikipedia - W F Marshall W F Marshall was the brother of Private Charles Frederick Marshall
Dungannon District's War Dead Acknowledgements 2015-2023