Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Thomas Charles a railway navvy, born 1862 in Whetstone, Leics., and his wife Eliza Ann, born 1864 in Whetstone, Leics. Amos was born in 1895 in Whetstone, Leics., his siblings were, Mark, born 1890, John Alfred, born 1891, Ada, born 1893, George Capson Charles, born 1897 and William Thomas, born 1899, all his siblings were born in Whetstone, Leics., in March 1901 the family home was at The Hill, Whetstone, Leics. In April 1911 Amos was employed as a horseman and was residing in the family home at Victoria Road, Whetstone, Leics., together with his widowed mother and siblings, John, Ada, George, William, Edwin, born 1904, Walter, born 1907, Mary Ethel Cecilia, born 1908 and Kathleen Alys, born 1911, the latter four siblings were all born in Whetstone, Leics. The War Diary for the 16th September records that The Battalion was due to be relieved by the West Yorkshire Regiment at 9.30pm, nothing was seen of this relief and at about 1.00am on the 17th September the Commanding Officers of both the Leicestershire Regiment and the Sherwood Foresters patrolled and found that the relief was occupying a position about 200x in the rear of us and had received no orders as to their relieving us. The Commanding Officer decided to evacuate the position. The Battalion formed up and marched away about 300x to 400x from the trenches. An orderly arrived with a message from Brigade directing that we were to evacuate our present position without relief. (It has since been found that this was necessary to enable the heavy artillery to bombard the Quadrilateral, and that the West Yorkshire Regiment were in a position to hold the ground vacated by us should the enemy attempt to advance). The Battalion proceeded to bivouacs in Maltz Horn Farm A.5 b 9.1 reference sheet Guillemont, arriving about 5.30am. Casualties throughout the action 14 officers and 410 other ranks.