PRIVATE CHARLES FRANK STEPHEN LUSTY
KING'S SHROPSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY
9TH APRIL 1918 AGE 20
BURIED: TILLOY BRITISH CEMETERY, TILLOY-LES-MOFFLAINES, FRANCE
Can there be a more bleak inscription? It says everything there is to say about Mr and Mrs Charles Lusty's grief.
Private Lusty was killed in the 42nd Infantry Brigade's attack on The Harp and Telegraph Hill, which formed part of the German's 'Siegfried Stellung', the Hindenburg Line. Possession of the high ground in this area was giving the Germans a huge strategic advantage. The attack, on the opening day of the battle of Arras, was successful.