Charles LITTLEWORTH
- Extended Description
- CHARLES LITTLEWORTH. QUARTERMASTER SERGEANT CH4193 ROYAL MARINE LIGHT INFANTRY BORN 22 DEC 1868. ENLISTED 22 JUN 1886. DIED 10 APR 1905 AGED 34 OF APOPLEXY AT HIS HOME IN ST PAUL'S BAY. HIS WIFE WAS AT HE SIDE WHEN HE DIED (HE WAS ALIAS CHARLES LITTLE)
AT REST IN PLOT A GRAVE 97 KALKARA NAVAL CEMETERY, MALTA. Unnamed burial.
N.B The Web: UK, Royal Marines Registers of Service Index, 1842-1925 on Ancestry shows Charles Little.
Malta Family History site also have a Charles Littlewood who died on the same day with the same condition etc. It appears that Littleworth is the correct surname and not Littlewood.
Charles LITTLEWOOD, QMS Instructor of Musketry, died at St. Paul’s Bay on Sunday 9th April 1905. At the time of his death his family was living with Corporal and Mrs. Gordon at St. Paul’s Bay as their home at Ghain Tuffieha was not ready. At about 9.30 pm he said ‘goodnight’ to Corporal Gordon and his wife, but shortly afterwards Mrs. Littlewood called Mrs. Gordon saying her husband was feeling ill. Medical aid was called but he expired at around 1.30 a.m. on the Monday morning. He left a widow and child. His funeral took place at Bighi Naval Hospital Cemetery on Tuesday 11th April.
