Charles Schonewald

Rifleman Charles ("Charlie") Schonewald was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in Liverpool, the son of German-born hairdresser and shopkeeper Herman and Janet Schonewald, of Ayr, in Scotland. At the time of the 1911 Census, Schonewald was working as a railway clerk while living with his family at 75 Windsor Street.
Aged 23, Schonewald died on 1 October 1916, during the Somme Offensive on the Western Front, while serving with the 1/9th (City of London) Battalion (Queen Victoria's Rifles), The London Regiment. A younger brother, Henry, had died in May 1915 with the 6th King's.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Thiepval Memorial.
==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Schonewald, Charles, cwgc.org. Retrieved 28 August 2013.
Category:Birth Date Unknown
Category:1916 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of German descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Thiepval Memorial
Category:Rifleman