Major Kenrick Archibald Worsley CHARNAUD (89027)
Royal Army Service Corps, 18th Division

Date of birth: 27th October 1910
Date of death: 10th December 1942

Died aged 32
Buried at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery Plot 4 Row E Grave 77
He was born at Larnaca, Cyprus on the 27th of October 1910 the elder son of Percival Benjamin Worsley Charnaud, pencil manufacturer, and Evelyn Marie (nee Taylor) of 8, Staverton Road, Cricklewood.

He was educated at The Dene, Caterham and at the King's School Canterbury from January 1925 to December 1927 where he was in Holme House and served in the Officer Training Corps.

On leaving school, he went to work in his father's pencil manufacturing business, the Royal Sovereign Pencil Company at Neasden in North London.

He was married in 1936 in North Sydney, New South Wales to Phyllis Elsie (nee Heuzenroeder) and they lived at 65, Ladbroke Grove, London W11.

He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers (TA) on the 20th of May 1939 and was promoted to Acting Captain on the 12th of September 1940. He transferred to the Royal Army Service Corps on the 25th of September 1940. He was appointed as an Adjutant on the 1st of July 1941 and was promoted to Captain on the 1st of October 1941 and to temporary Major on the same date.

He was captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore on the 15th of February 1942 and was transported overland to Thailand on the 1st of November 1942 where he was put to work in the construction of the Thailand-Burma railway. He died from diphtheria six weeks later.
Holme House

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