Panel 2 of the Walls of the Missing.

An inscription on the Wall of the Missing.

2LT Charles F. Hartley was born in Brookline, Massachusetts.  He served in the Machine Gun Compnay of the Second Battalion of the Coldstream Guards.  He was 'Mentioned in Despatches' for his actions on July 31, 1917.  He fell during the Battle of Cambrai at Bourlon Wood on November 27, 1917; a private memorial remembers him there.  His body was never recovered. He fell not far from another American on the same day, LT Herbert W. Windeler of the Grenadier Guards.  See Site Fontaine-Notre-Dame (Bourlon Wood) for more on Hartley's  private memorial.

He also is remembered on a memorial stone in his parents plot at Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. It states:

"2nd Lieut., British Coldstream Guards. Born Brookline, Mass. Educated Pomfret School, Conn., and Harrow, Eng. Killed while making an attack before Cambrai, France."

"E'en as he trod that day to God,
so walked he from his birth,
in simpleness and gentleness,
and honour and clean mirth."

Source of Information: The Western Front Assocation Website; Find a Grave

COLDSTREAM GUARDS

SECOND LIEUT

Hartley C.F.