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Bartlett, Charles Edward Cox

    Service number:
    1158
    Nationality:
    British

    Biography

    ?: Cadet, Royal Military College

    5 February 1913: Lieutenant
    24 June 1916: Temporary Major
    ?: Lieutenant Colonel

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    Period:
    First World War (1914-1918)
    Rank:
    Lieutenant
    Awarded on:
    January 14th, 1915
    Mentioned in Dispatches
    Period:
    First World War (1914-1918)
    Rank:
    Lieutenant
    Unit:
    1st South Staffordshire Regiment, 57th Division, British Army
    Awarded on:
    February 18th, 1915
    Military Cross (MC)
    Period:
    First World War (1914-1918)
    Rank:
    Lieutenant
    Unit:
    1st South Staffordshire Regiment, 57th Division, British Army
    Awarded on:
    May 16th, 1916
    "In recognition of his gallantry in saving life at St. Peter's Barracks, Jersey, in February last:

    On the 22nd February 1916, at St. Peter's Barracks. Jersey, one of the men under instruction at a bombing class, of which Lieutenant Bartlett was in charge, was practicing with a catapult bomb thrower, and had removed the safety-pin from a bomb, holding back the lever with his finger. In placing the bomb in the sling he dropped it, and, in a fright, ran back- wards, colliding with Lieutenant Bartlett, who had started to pick up the bomb. Lieutenant Bartlett, however, succeeded in reaching the bomb in time to throw it over the parapet into the air: where it exploded harmlessly. The bomb was timed to explode five seconds after the lever was released.

    This Officer had already been awarded the Military Cross."
    Albert Medal in Bronze
    Period:
    First World War (1914-1918)
    Rank:
    Temporary Major
    Awarded on:
    January 29th, 1919
    Croix de Guerre (1914-1918)
    Rank:
    Lieutenant-Colonel
    Awarded on:
    September 15th, 1939
    Mentioned in Dispatches
    Period:
    Second World War (1939-1945)
    Rank:
    Lieutenant-Colonel
    Awarded on:
    April 1st, 1941
    Mentioned in Dispatches

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