Charles Guy
1939 - hosiery worker
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Charles was the younger son of William and Lucy Barrowcliffe Guy (née Price).
His father was born in 1891 and his mother in 1887. They were married at Sutton in Ashfield St Mary Magdalene in February 1913 and the Banns were also read at Blackwell parish church (reg. JFM Mansfield). The couple had three children, William b. July 1913, Martha b. November 1914 and baptised Blackwell parish church 14 December 1914, and Charles b. 1916 (JAS).
William, a miner, and Lucy were living on New Street, Hulcote, when their daughter Martha was baptised in 1914. By 1921 the family was living at 22 York Street, Sutton in Ashfield: William a tram repairer (Blackwell Colliery Co.), Lucy and William (7y 11m), Martha (6) and Charles (4).
William jnr., a hosiery worker, of 22 York Street, married Mary Moore at Sutton in Ashfield St Mary Magdalene in June 1936. They and their son Christopher (b. May 1939) were living at 4 Beechdale Crescent, Sutton in Ashfield, when the 1939 when the England & Wales Register was compiled/
William snr., a tram repairer (Clay Hope), Lucy and their two children, Martha and Charles, who were both hosiery workers, were still at 22 York Street in 1939.
Charles married Hannah Mary Brown in 1939. Hannah (b. 1918) was the daughter of Herbert, a school porter, and his wife Annie and was recorded on the 1939 Register living with her parents and her three younger siblings, John, Constance and Iris, on Martyn Avenue, Sutton in Ashfield.
Hannah married Frederick Osborne in 1946 and they probably had a daughter (b. 1949); Hannah died in 1980 (reg. JFM Mansfield).
Charles's father William died in July 1947 (buried St Mary Magdelene churchyard) and his mother Lucy in 1978 (buried Sutton Cemetery, 1 July). His brother William died in 1981 and his unmarried sister Martha in 1989; both deaths were registered in Mansfield.
Lance Corporal Charles Guy was killed in action on 3 November 1943 and is buried in the Sangro River War Cemetery, Italy (grave ref. II. E. 6).
No details of his military record have yet been traced apart from confirmation of his death on 3 November 1943 on an Army casualty list for North Africa/Italy.
CWGC History of the Cemetery: 'On 3 September 1943 the Allies invaded the Italian mainland, the invasion coinciding with an armistice made with the Italians who then re-entered the war on the Allied side. Allied objectives were to draw German troops from the Russian front and more particularly from France, where an offensive was planned for the following year. Progress through southern Italy was rapid despite stiff resistance, but by the end of October, the Allies were facing the German winter defensive position known as the Gustav Line, which stretched from the river Garigliano in the west to the Sangro in the east. By 4 November, the Allied force that had fought its way up the Adriatic coast was preparing to attack the Sangro river positions. A bridgehead had been established by the 24th and by nightfall on the 30th, the whole ridge overlooking the river was in Allied hands. The site of this cemetery was selected by the 5th Corps and into it were brought the graves of men who had died in the fierce fighting on the Adriatic sector of the front in November-December 1943, and during the static period that followed.' (www.cwgc.org)
C. Guy identified and researched by RF (Dec. 2025)
Photo of Charles Guy
Buried in Sangro River War Cemetery, Italy (www.cwgc.org)