WWI · Battle Death Record
Charles Tipton
Private, U.S. Army · Tennessee
Personnel File — Core Information
- Name
- Charles Tipton
- Entered the Service From
- Tennessee
- Rank
- Private
- Service
- U.S. Army
- War
- WWI
- Date of Death
- October 17, 1918
- Burial / Memorial
- Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial, Brookwood, England
- Grave
- Plot C
Their story
Private Charles Harrison "Hack" Tipton, a U.S. Army soldier from Tennessee, died on October 17, 1918, at age 27 during the influenza pandemic that swept through military ranks in the final weeks of World War I. Though his family believed for decades that he had been buried in France, he is in fact interred at Brookwood American Cemetery in England.
Compiled from American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) and National Archives (NARA) records and public sources.
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