Charles Gordon PARAMORE
Ancestral surnames:
- Paramore, Beall, Hockins, Hick, Burbeary, Allanson, Riby (by marriage: Dumont)
- see his family tree drawing via www.groupphoto.co.uk/extra Row 2
Education:
- Merchant Taylors' School
- A school in Germany (a postcard from him on 24th January 1903 from Königsfeld im Schwarzwald points to this being a Moravian school there)
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The Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly, London
Decorations & Campaign Medals:
- 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Memorials:
- originally buried on the battlefield at 36c.G17c.6.6 (also given as being at “Lone Tree”, 3000 yards SE of Vermelles). His body was exhumed (from G.24.c.8.9 – identified by cross on grave) after the war and moved to Plot III, Row K, Grave 3 in Dud Corner Military Cemetery at Loos. Gravestone: “Captain C.G. Paramore, Royal Berkshire Regiment, 25th September 1915, Age 30” - no personal inscription. CWGC
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Mortimer village memorial, Berkshire (one of 56 names)
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St John’s Church, Mortimer, Berkshire (one of 24 names)
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St Mary’s Church, Mortimer, Berkshire (one of 56 Names)
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Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly, London (one of 35 names)
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Tansley, Derbyshire (one of 31 names)
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Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, Middlesex (one of 315 names)
– 2 memorials including one where the names were hand-carved by the families of the fallen -
Old Merchant Taylors' club at Durrants, Croxley Green (one of 315 names)
Pages in book (www.groupphoto.co.uk/the-book): 124-126
Appears in Charles Bartlett's letters: see I Shall Not Be Away Long book
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