3rd (Reserve) Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment
Charles Stanley Marmont was the fourth of five children born to Arthur and Gertrude Marmont. He was born on 6 March 1880.
At the time of his birth, the family were living in Thornton Heath Surrey where Arthur appears to have been in business. His three elder siblings were born in Surrey as was younger brother Cuthbert.
The 1881 Census shows the family still in Surrey. Arthur was born in Woodchester and Gertrude was born in Bath. The family were in a position to employ a servant.
Ten years later the family were living in Forest Green near Nailsworth, where Arthur had become an employer in the pin manufacturing business. They employed two servants.
On 6 August 1893, Charles and his two brothers Arthur and Cuthbert were baptised at Inchbrook Church.
By the time of the 1901 Census, only Charles and Cuthbert were still at home with their parents.
Twenty-one year old Charles gave no occupation, possibly he was involved in his father’s business, his brother Cuthbert being a bank clerk. Arthur senior was a partner in the pin manufacturing business of Messrs Perkins and Marmont of Woodchester. He died in 1906 leaving an estate worth over £900,000 in today’s money.
By 1911, just Charles and his married sister, Helen were living with their widowed mother. Again, there was no occupation listed for Charles, his sister being an artist.
No service records survive for Charles. He joined the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion of the Glosters which had moved to the Sittingbourne/Maidstone area in May 1916 and acted as the Thames and Medway Garrison.
The UK Army Register of Soldier’s Effects shows that Charles died at the Military Hospital in Maidstone on 15 February 1919, aged 38. A piece on the Nailsworth Town Council website states that, according to the death certificate, Charles died from acute bronchitis and cardiac failure.
Charles is buried at Forest Green Congregational Chapel and has a private headstone, in the form of a stone cross on a plinth (the cross has subsequently become detached).
It does not appear that either of Charles’ brothers served during the war.
Researched by Helen Wollington July 2021