DAINTY, Charles

Charles Dainty was born in Lye and was living there in 1914. At the outbreak of the war he volunteered to serve as a Territorial and joined the 1/7th Battalion of the Worcesters. They went overseas in March 1915 and acquired front line experience in quiet sectors of the Western Front for the rest of that year. By the start of 1916 they were stationed at the northern end of the Somme sector near Hebuterne. Both the German shelling and the winter weather were punishing for the troops and casualties were experienced. Private Charles Dainty died on the 6th January 1916 and is buried in Hebuterne Cemetery (1 J 14) and commemorated on the Stourbridge and Lye and Wollescote Memorials.