Family :

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

"The Battle of Loos (25 September to 18 October 1915) was the major battle on the Western Front in 1915, surpassing in every respect all that had gone before in terms of numbers of men and materiel committed to battle. The preliminary bombardment was the most violent to date and the battle was charaterised by the committment of Regular and Territorial battalions on a large scale, in which the Territorials performed just as well as the Regulars. As the battles on the Western Front in 1915 increased in size and violence, so the casualties increased in proportion: Neuve Chapelle 12,000, Aubers Ridge/Festubert 29,000 , Loos 60,000. 1916 was to take the casualty cost to another level. Loos was intended as a minor role in support of French efforts around Arras but circumstances reduced the French effort. It marked the first use of poison gas by the British. Once the initial assualt had failed the battle continued in a series of actions mostly focused on the northern sector around the tactically important Hohenzollern Redoubt."

Detail :

INGLIS, Charles North Dalrymple, Lieutenant, Indian Armv Reserve of Officers, attd. 2/8th Gurkha Rifles. 4th son of Robert Inglis, Girvan Ayrshire. Born Lovestone Ayreshire 17 June, 1880. Educated at Ayr Academy, and afterwards went through an engineering course in Glasgow, on completing which he obtained a Government appointment in India in 1901 on the Eastern Bengal State Railway. After the outbreak of war he was Gazetted Lieutenant to the Indian Reserve of Officers in Feb. 1915. He left India for France attached to the 2/8 Gurkha Rifles in March. 1915 and was killed in action near Neuve Chapelle, 25 Sept. 1915. He was buried in a trench at the corner of Bois de Biez Wood. On this occasion the 2/8th Gurkhas lost their Col. and eleven of their officers killed and wounded and only 100 out of 600 ofthe regiment escaped. Inglis was a keen rugby player, was a member of Turnberry Golf Club, and played in many matches. He was also an excellent tennis player. He and his brother (Capt David Inglis, also killed at Neuve Chapelle in December 1914 whilst serving with the 1/4 Gurkhas) did a good deal of shooting together in India and both secured some fine big game trophies. He was unmarried.

Masonic :

He was initiated into Lodge Light in Adjoodhia, Uttar Pradesh on 11th February 1909, when employed as a Locomotive Superintendent and resident at Fyzabad. On the 22nd July 1911, he joined Nripendra Narayan (named after a Maharaja of Koch Bihar) Lodge No. 2446 at Cooch Behar, Bengal.

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley