252903 Pte. Charles Jacob Zorn British Army 6th Btn. South Lancashire Regiment (d.9th Apr 1916) Charles J. Zorn was born in Manchester. He was married with three children and lived in Hotel Street, Earlestown. He worked at Collins Green Colliery, and had in earlier days been a sailor. He was born in Germany and in 1911 was working as a butcher and living at 23 Thomas Street in Birkenhead with his wife Annie who was born in Liverpool and their son Charles J. Zorn, age 2 months, born in Birkenhead, Cheshire.
He enlisted in May 1915 and, according to the obituary published in the Newton and Earlestown Guardian on 5th of May 1915, after a few weeks training was drafted to Suvla Bay in Gallipoli. From there he was sent to Egypt, and finally to the Persian Gulf, where he was attached to the force that was attempting to relieve Townshend at Kut.
Charles's name is on the Basra Memorial in Iraq which bears the name of more than forty thousand members of the Commonwealth Forces who died in the operations in Mesopotamia from the autumn of 1914 to the end of August 1921 and whose graves are not known.
Additional Information: | Charles Jacob Zorn was the son of Charles Zorn and Annie Zorn.
He was born circa 1881 and died in 1916 aged 35 years old.
His father was a German immigrant and a butcher
Their family still live in the Newton le Willows area of Merseyside and Charles Jabob Zorns name is shown on Earlestown war memorial, it is also shown on the Basra war memorial.
He was my great great grand father
Seve Gomez-Aspron
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