Private Charles Daniel Moon
Private Charles Daniel Moon
As well as collecting WWI death penny’s, I also collect family bibles that have a family register in them and currently have about 145.
One of my Bibles contains details of a soldier called Charles Daniel Moon, who was killed in action in World War I.
Charles Daniel Moon was born on the 13th of September 1885 in Burwash, Rother District in East Sussex, and was baptised on the 18th of October 1885 at St Philip church in Burwash Weald.
He was the fourth child of seven born to Samson Gallup Moon and Ellen Barden.
On the 1891 census, the family was living at Challenzor Farm, Burwash, and Samson was listed as an agricultural labourer. The family had moved to the Weald, Burwash, by the 1901 census. The family had been mistranscribed as Moors, and Charles’s occupation was detailed as a labourer on a farm.
There was no change to the family on the 1911 census.
Charles joined the Royal Sussex Regiment, 8th Battalion Pioneers, service number G/2212.
Charles was killed in action on the 20th of September 1916 in France and was buried at Aveluy, Departement de la Somme, Picardie, France.
Charles is also commemorated on the War Memorial at St Philips Churchyard, Burwash.
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