CHALLONER, Titus

Titus Challoner was probably related to John and William Challoner of Lye. He enlisted in the artillery and was posted to 306 Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery. They fought on the Arras front in 1917 and remained there in the autumn of that year. It was not a very active front while the Third Battle of Ypres was continuing but a great deal of artillery was engaged in counter-battery work. Probably as a result of this kind of action Gunner Titus Chaloner was killed in action on the 13th October. He is buried in Browns Copse Cemetery, Roeux, (IV B 31) and commemorated on the Lye and Wollescote and Lye church Memorials.