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CASELTON, ROBERTS MAJUBA ( Spelled CASTLETON on CWGC records ). Corporal 4816 The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) 8th Bn. Died 17-April-1916 aged 16 Son of Walston and Louise Caselton, of 30, Diceland Rd., Banstead, Surrey. Native of Norwich. Grave Reference: V. B. 5A. ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France. Source : Commonwealth War Graves Commission. All Saints Churchyard, Banstead, Surrey. The second step on the family memorial remembers young Coporal Caselton buried in France. (The letters have been digitally enhanced to show them more clearly). .................................................................................................................................................................................................. back to panel	Caselton family memorial. Wood panel All Saints Church Banstead.

COUCHMAN, CHARLES EDWARD.

Private 2813

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 2nd Bn.

Died 26-September-1917 aged 36

Son of Charles and Eleanor Couchman. Charles and Eleanor, nee Seymour, were married in the 2nd Qtr of 1879 and the marriage was registered at Kensington. The 1881 census shows them living at 52 Castle Street, St Giles In The Fields. At that time Charles was a Brewers Servant.

Park Cottage Banstead
Park Cottage is shown in the centre of this photograph
and is now a grade II listed building.

Their son,Charles Edward Couchman was born on the 18th March 1882 and his birth was registered at St Giles South in the County of Middlesex. The 1891 census shows Charles Edward aged 9 as a Scholar.

Sometime between 1891 and 1901 it would appear that Charles Edward Couchman left England and went to live in Ireland. His father Charles died, and his mother Eleanor remarried in 1894. Her second husband was Frederick Davis.

The 1901 census shows Eleanor and Frederick living at Park Road Cottage Banstead with two of Eleanor’s children from her first marriage and another two children that she had with Frederick.

On the 7th June 1904 Charles Edward Couchman married Mary Anne Coyle in Ballyshannon in the county of Donegal. His profession is given as 'Soldier' and it is very likely that he served with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers an Irish infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1881. The regiment recruited mainly from the counties of Donegal, Londonderry, Tyrone and Fermanagh in Ireland, with its garrison depot located at Omagh.

Frederick George Davis The birth certificate for Charles' and Mary's daughter Bridget, born on the 16th January 1916, does show Charles Edward as a soldier of the 4th Battalion Inniskilling Fusiliers.

Just twenty months later, on the 26th September 1917, Private Charles Edward Couchman died whilst serving with the 2nd Battalion Inniskilling Fusiliers.

Charles Edward was the second son in the family to die during WWl as his step brother Frederick George Davis died two years earlier, in September 1915. Thus both brothers are listed on the Banstead War Memorial.

Frederick and Eleanor were still in Banstead but had moved to Dehra Doon in Lyme Regis Road.

Private Carles Edward Couchman - CWGC headstone Charles Couchman,Wood Panel, All Saints Church Banstead
Wood panel
All Saints Church
Banstead.

Charles Couchman, All saint memorial
Garton Memorial
All Saints churchyard
Banstead

Grave Reference: IV. B. 21.

COXYDE MILITARY CEMETERY Koksijde, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Source : Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Cemetery Photos courtesy of Des Cronin.
Family research by Christine Kent.
All Saints Church Memorial Banstead (shows 25th September 1917).

Last updated 12 August 2008
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CROSS, EDWARD JASPER Private M2/101835 Army Service Corps 341st M.T. Coy. Died 8-March-1916 age unknown Grave Reference: New ground. ALL SAINTS CHURCHYARD Banstead, Surrey. Source : Commonwealth War Graves Commission. All Saints Church Memorial, Banstead, Surrey. IDENTIFICATION ISSUES - Link to Banstead area not yet established. .................................................................................................................................................................................................. back to panel
CURTIS, ARTHUR Private G/11379 Royal Fusiliers 2nd Bn. Died 24-April-1917 aged 29 Memorial Reference: Bay 3. ARRAS MEMORIAL Source : Commonwealth War Graves Commission. All Saints Church Memorial, Banstead, Surrey. IDENTIFICATION ISSUES - Link to Banstead area not yet established. .................................................................................................................................................................................................. back to panel	Wood panel All Saints Church Banstead.