This is part of a series of essays about the First World War casualties commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in Ohio.

Captain Charlie Becker was commissioned into The East Surrey Regiment in November 1915. He served in France with the 8^th and 9^th (Service) Battalions, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) in 36^th Brigade, 12^th Division. Wounded serving with the former in April 1917, he went back out to France but was sent home and placed on light duties after a short period with the latter. In July 1918, he arrived in the United States for duty as an instructor with the British War Mission at Camp Sherman near Chillicothe, Ohio. Just after midnight on 8/9 August 1918 he was killed in a motor accident, aged 21, and was buried in Grandview Cemetery, Chillicothe. His grave is in the southern part of the cemetery in Section 10, Lot 29, Grave 67.

A very detailed essay about the life of Charlie Becker is reproduced here with the permission of the author Doug Rowe.