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The Roll lists his address as 68 Lincoln Road, Walton. It misrecords his name as "Gosord Charles Winterton", and states that he died on 4/8/1918; his name was actually Charles Gosford Winterton, and he died on 5/8/1918.
(CWGC records that Serjeant C Winterton, service number 65816, died on 5/8/1918 serving in the School of Technical Training (Halton) of the Royal Air Force, and is buried in grave X.89 at Aylesbury Cemetery in Buckinghamshire.
The Medal Rolls record that Charles Winterton was initially an Acting Serjeant in the 15th Hussars (regimental number 29350), and that he went to France on 22/6/1915; he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps on 12/3/1917 under service number 65816. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he died on 5/8/1918 at the Central Military Hospital in Aylesbury, and that his mother Sarah was his legatee.
His birth was registered as Charles Gosford Winterton in Peterborough District in 1868. On the 1871 census he was living with his parents Thomas and Sarah Ann Winterton at Brook Street, Bampton in Devon, where his parents were both school teachers; his place of birth was recorded as Peterborough. On the 1881 census Charles and his sister were staying with their aunt Elizabeth Gosford at Albert Place in Peterborough. On the 1911 census he was lodging at 1 Fox Cover, Lincoln Road in Peterborough; his occupation was recorded as "Army Pensioner"; his widowed mother Sarah Ann Winterton was living at Fairlight, Park Road, Peterborough.
The death of Sergeant Major Charles Gosford Winterton of the RAF, "after a very short illness", was announced on 17/8/1918 in the Peterborough Advertiser, which reported that he had formerly served in the Irish Fusiliers, and had previously worked at Messrs Sage in Peterborough).