One of the four sons of Charles and Mary Haskayne of Brewery Lane, Melling, Charles married Mary Agnes, and lived at Nook Cottage, Taylors Lane, Maghull. Private Haskayne was serving with the 1st Battallion, King’s (Liverpool Regiment), near Pozieres, on the Somme, in February 1916 when a thaw turned the land into a quagmire. The Germans bombarded the assembly trenches. Charles was wounded and died from his injuries. He is buried at Aveluy cemetery, France. His brothers Albert and William were also killed in the war.