A Great War Pair to Lance Corporal C. W. Curle, London Regiment (City of London Rifles), British War and Victory Medals ( 4313 A.Cpl. C.W. Curle. 6-Lond. R.), good very fine, Great War Memorial Plaque 'William Charles Curle'. 4313 Lance Corporal Charles William Curle of the 1st/6th Battalion London Regiment, 47th (2nd London) Division, was killed in action on the 30th of November 1917, at the Battle of Cambrai, during the first day of the German counter attack. 'The 47th Division were involved in a vicous struggle to hold their positions against an sustained bloody assualt by fast moving stroomtroopers, who attacking in groups rather than in waves, by-passed strong points which would then be mopped up later, a tactic honed to perfection in the later German breakout of March 1918, eventually the Cantaing and Bourlon Wood were held, although the 47th were driven back from the adjoining ridge' Charles Curle was killed in the 'bloody' gallant stand of the City of London Rifles, he was just 21, he has no known grave, and is Remembered with Honour at the Cambrai Memorial at Louverval, where the epitaph reads; 'To the Glory of God and to the enduring memory of 7048 officers and men of the forces of the British Empire who fell at the Battle of Cambrai between the 20th and the 3rd December 1917, whose names are recorded but to whom the fortunes of war denied the known and honoured burial given to their comrades in death'.
A Great War Pair to Lance Corporal C. W. Curle, London Regiment (City of London Rifles), British War and Victory Medals ( 4313 A.Cpl. C.W. Curle. 6-Lond. R.), good very fine, Great War Memorial Plaque 'William Charles Curle'. 4313 Lance Corporal Charles William Curle of the 1st/6th Battalion London Regiment, 47th (2nd London) Division, was killed in action on the 30th of November 1917, at the Battle of Cambrai, during the first day of the German counter attack. 'The 47th Division were involved in a vicous struggle to hold their positions against an sustained bloody assualt by fast moving stroomtroopers, who attacking in groups rather than in waves, by-passed strong points which would then be mopped up later, a tactic honed to perfection in the later German breakout of March 1918, eventually the Cantaing and Bourlon Wood were held, although the 47th were driven back from the adjoining ridge' Charles Curle was killed in the 'bloody' gallant stand of the City of London Rifles, he was just 21, he has no known grave, and is Remembered with Honour at the Cambrai Memorial at Louverval, where the epitaph reads; 'To the Glory of God and to the enduring memory of 7048 officers and men of the forces of the British Empire who fell at the Battle of Cambrai between the 20th and the 3rd December 1917, whose names are recorded but to whom the fortunes of war denied the known and honoured burial given to their comrades in death'.
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