Charles Frederick's Story.
Birkenhead News 22 September 1915Hoylake Soldier Killed.
STATIONMASTER’S ONLY SON.
It will be with profound regret that residents in Hoylake and West Kirby will learn of the death of Lance-Corporal Charles Frederick Cherry, the only son of Mr. And Mrs. Cherry, Airlie Road, Hoylake. The sad intelligence was received on Sunday morning, and from the brief account given it appears that the gallant young soldier was hit in the back by a shrapnel bullet when standing on the threshold of an office tent.
Lance-Corporal Cherry will perhaps be better known as the handsome son of the popular and genial stationmaster at Hoylake. The Cherry family has been resident in the Deeside district for many years, and it must be well upwards of 20 years ago since the dead soldier’s father was appointed to the position in Hoylake he now holds.
Before joining the Army in August, 1914, Lance-Corporal Cherry was on the clerical staff of the Union Marine Insurance Co., Dale Street, Liverpool. He enlisted at Birkenhead in company with the very first recruits from this district. Some time previously to going out to Gallipoli in July he was appointed to the Divisional Staff (the 53rd Division) of which the 4th Cheshires form part. As evidence of the popularity he enjoyed whilst in the machine gun section of his regiment, it may be mentioned that on his appointment to the divisional staff his comrades made him the recipient of a valuable fountain pen, and it is a tragic coincidence that the presentation should have been made by Sgt. Penny, of Birkenhead, whose death was also announced in these columns recently.
Lance-Corporal Cherry, who finished his education at Calday Grange Grammar School, was a most enthusiastic yachtsman. The utmost sympathy will go out to Mr. And Mrs. Cherry in their great bereavement.
Charles Cherry’s photograph and newspaper article by Chris Booth