William Charles (Chas) Greenaway
Memorial: Chipping Sodbury Town Cross - Broad Street
Regiment: Gloucestershire Regiment
Medals: British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Private 26951
Parents: Charles and Annie Greenaway
Home address: Back Lane, off Hatters Lane, Chipping Sodbury, Bristol and High Street, Chipping Sodbury, Bristol
Pre-war occupation: Quarryman
Date of birth: 1892
Place of birth: Yate, Bristol
Date of death: 26/08/1916
Buried/Commemorated at: Blighty Valley Cemetery, Authuile, Somme, France
Age: 24
Further information:
13th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment
William Greenaway came from a large family in Chipping Sodbury, though originally from Yate. He had two older brothers and five younger ones, as well as three younger sisters living in Back Lane off Hatters Lane.
William fell in the Somme campaign, while the Battles of Delville Wood and Pozieres Ridge were being fought. He was buried where he fell, in what was to become the Blighty Valley Cemetery, almost at the mouth of the valley of the Ancre, and below Nab Valley. There had been fewer than 500 men buried here since the beginning of the Somme battle in July 1916, but it now contains over 1000
William Greenaway is remembered on the Chipping Sodbury and District War Memorial Cottage Hospital board, now at Yate and District Heritage Centre under Chipping Sodbury
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
Alison Benton (2014) Remembered with Honour. Sprint Print, Yate. Forces War Records