L/Cpl 1860 Charles Ferns

[Tim Bell]

L/Cpl Ferns served overseas with 2nd Bttn from 20/7/1915. He was transferred to Class Z on 18/3/1919.
Charles died from disease on 22/12/1920.
age 26
labourer
TB attributed 100%
Mother Mary, 4 Mill St, Ancoats and daughter Lily.

[Tim Bell]

L/Cpl 1860 Charles Ferns – 1st Bn
Charles Ferns was a casual labourer / errand boy when he enlisted in the 4th (Special Reserve) Battalion on 23/10/1912.  Having completed 6 months initial service with 4th Bn, Charles then attended the annual training in 1913 and 1914. 
Charles was mobilised for overseas duty on 08/08/1914 and appointed L/Cpl on 20/11/1914.  He embarked for France with the BEF and joined 2nd Battalion for duty on 05/12/1914. Charles was wounded at Le Cateau on 22/12/1914 and treated at 13th Gen Hosp.  Boulogne, before apparently returning home where he was poste to 3rd Bn on 02.03.1915.. 
Charles rejoined the BEF with 1st Bn on 06/07/1915. He then went on to join 1st Bn in Mesopotamia (Iraq) from 11/12/1915 to 09/04/1918. Charles was promoted to Cpl on 15/03/1916 and then served in Egypt from 23/04/1918 until returning home on 19/02/1919.
Charles was demobilised and transferred to Reserve on 18/03/1919.   He received a pension from 14/10/1919 for pulmonary TB attributable service and 100% disablement.  This pension was renewed for 12 months from 01/09/1920.
Charles Ferns died from disease on 22/12/1920, aged 26.  He died in Bucklow, the location of Baguley Sanatorium.
The son of Ernest and Mary Ferns of 4 Mill Street, Ancoats. Father of Frederick L. Whitehead, born 23/12/1915.
Pair Star Star2
1911
1901?
Birth

[Tim Bell]

DC confirms Charles Ferns cause of death as TB - attributable to service - and emphysema.  He died at Baguley Sanatorium. Tobacco Traveller Ex Lance Cpl 1st Manchester Regiment No 1860.

We need to find the Burial

[Tim Bell]

Charles Ferns is buried at St Joseph's Moston, St Patrick Plot 717

Credit IFCP and RC Diocese of Salford

[Tim Bell]

Charles Fern's commemoration in the UKBOR was accepted today.  In due course his plot at St Joseph's Moston will become a war grave. I don't know if it has a private memorial.
https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/75469807/charles-ferns/