Pte Charles Frost MM, 15525, Gloucestershire Regiment, died in hospital at Taplow, Bucks, on September 27th, 1918, as the result of a gunshot wound that fractured his right thigh in France on August 11th.

He had spent three weeks in hospital in France before being brought back to England and an anticipated recovery. His body was brought back to Luton and buried at the General Cemetery in Rothesay Road on the afternoon of October 3rd.

Pte Frost, who had joined up in the autumn of 1914 and went to France in February 1915, was awarded the Military Medal after he had dug out buried comrades while under heavy shell fire in September 1916.

Charles was born in Barton in 1888 to Thomas and Sarah Frost. By 1901 he was a farm boy living with his parents, three brothers and four sisters at Bottom Farm, Pepsal End, Flamstead.

At the time of his death, Charles' widow, Lily, was living in Church Street, Slip End. He is commemorated on the war memorial at St Andrew's Church, Woodside.