IN LOVING MEMORY OF
MY DEAR HUSBAND CHARLIE
DROWNED ON ACTIVE SERVICE

LANCE CORPORAL CHARLES BELLENDEN POWELL

ROYAL ENGINEERS

24TH JANUARY 1916 AGE 36

BURIED: CALAIS SOUTHERN CEMETERY, FRANCE


Lance Corporal Powell served with the Inland Water Transport section of the Royal Engineers. This operated barges transporting ammunition and provisions from the Base Supply Depots to the front. It also helped operate the ambulance barges carrying the wounded from the front to the base hospitals.

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