John had served in the Territorial Army [TA] prior to the war. His Regiment served in North Africa at the Battle of Knightsbridge with 25-pounder guns and re-equipping with the M7 Priest self-propelled gun in the second Battle of El Alamein. John was the second OW to die in action on Friday 29^th May 1942 and both now lie in the same cemetery - Knightsbridge War Cemetery, Acroma, Libya. John was aged 35.

Eldest son of John William Charlton & Gwendoline Mary Owen Charlton of Kelsterton, Flintshire, North Wales.

A copy of this brief story is available for download here.

See also the Commonwealth War Graves Commission permanent digital memorial, ‘Evermore: Stories of the fallen’  relating to:-
Major John Roger Owen CHARLTON