Adjacent to a farmers field, about 1.5 kilometers west of Fontaine-Notre-Dame town center; about 1 kilometer east of the memorial to another American, LT Herbert Windeler, Grenedier Guards. The owner of the land and tenant farmer co-operated fully and a sign-posted right of access from the lane to the north of the memorial. Visitors are asked to use only this way to reach the site.

A granite cross with an inscribed base; a concrete fence surronds the memorial.

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 on November 27, 1917 at Bourlon Wood.  After the war,  his parents searched for his body and he could not be located.  They built this memorial on the spot where they beleived he fell. He is rememebred on the Cambrai Memorial Tablets of the Missing.

2LT Hartley fell not far from the location of the memorial; another American fell nearby on the same day, LT Herbert W. Windeler of the Grenadier Guards. A private memorial to Windeler is located about 1 kilometer way on a wooded path to the west. See Site Cambrai Memorial where they are both listed on the Wall of the Missing and Site Boulon Woods for the Windeler memorial.

Source of Information and photos: The Western Front Assocation Website, Private Memorial section for more on this memorial and other private memorials

IN LOVING MEMORY

OF CHARLES FLETCHER

HARTLEY,

2ND LEUT. COLDSTREAM GUARDS

WHO FELL ON THIS SPOT

NOV. 27TH 1917.

AGED 20 YEARS