Gunner Charles Richard Mellor, 656450, 82nd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, died on August 19th, 1918, in the 12th General Hospital, Rouen, in France, as a result of having been gassed in action. He had been married only four months.

Born in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, on March 12th, 1899, he had joined the Staffordshire R.F.A. when aged only 16½. He was stationed at Biscot for eight months and met his future wife, Luton girl Daisy Holton, while there.

He went to France at the age of 17 and was gassed and slightly wounded, with the result that he came back to England. He married Daisy, one of 12 children of Silas and Emma Holton, of 3 Park Place, Luton, in Luton on April 27th, 1918. Daisy was living at 60 Burr Street, Luton, when Charles returned to France the following month.

Daisy remarried in February 1919, her new husband being John Harle, of the R.A.M.C.