Charles Volke

Rifleman Charles Richard Volke was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1894, in Bethnal Green, the son of German-born baker Friedrich and Martha Volke (née Napper), of London. At the the time of the 1911 Census, Volke was working as a surveyor's clerk for an estate agent while living with his family at 211 Green Street, Forest Gate.
Aged 22, Volke died 12 June 1917, at Grange Military Hospital, Southport, of wounds recieved on 14 April during the Battle of Arras.Charles Richard Volke, findagrave.com. Retrieved 7 June 2015. He had been serving with the 9th (County of London) Battalion (Queen Victoria's Rifles), The London Regiment.
He is buried in St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Leytonstone.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Volke, C R, cwgc.org. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
Category:1894 births
Category:1917 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of German descent
Category:Buried in England
Category:Rifleman