Lot Essay
INDENT Lieutenant Frederick Charleston, born 1889 at Clapham, London, educated at University College, London, joined the O.T.C. January, 1909 and received his commission as 2nd Lieutenant Lancashire Fusiliers, 1911; returning to England from India on the outbreak of war, he joined the 2nd Bn. Lancashire Fusiliers at the Front October, 1914 and was advanced to Lieutenant May, 1915; he was slightly gassed at the 2nd Battle of Ypres and died 7 July, 1915 from wounds received in action at Pilkem, near Ypres ... he was in charge of a machine-gun section which was hit by a shell. Lieutenant Charleston was buried at Farm Olivier, Elverdingue and is commemorated in the Church of the Holy Spirit, Clapham Common