One hundred years ago today, three years into the Great War, Acting Bombardier Charles James Tilsley 313446, 2nd/1st (North Midland) Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery died age 20.
Charles was a Porthill Scout, and was the twelth of eighteen of our Scouts, that we know of, that were killed in the Great War.
You can read his full story here.
Charles James Tilsley b. Stoke 1897 – d. Belgium 1917.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
