Other Information:Charles enlisted with 2/3rd West Lancashire Field Ambulance on 5 Nov 1914.
Whilst at Weeton Camp near Blackpool, Charles was one of 20 men who volunteered as reinforcements for 87th FA at Gallipoli. He was aboard the 11,000 ton Allied troop transport 'Royal Edward' taking troops to Mudros on August 13, 1915 when it was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UB.14 off the then Italian Dodecanese island of Kos. The survivors were in the water for about five hours before they were rescued by the hospital ship SS Soudan. He told his daughter that while he was in the water he thought of the hymn 'For Those In Peril On The Sea'.
After Gallipoli he served in France and ended his war in Highfield Military Hospital after being wounded in the mouth, arm and leg by shrapnel when brining in a wounded man.
Discharged 24 Jun 1919 Para 392 Sec XVI Kings Regs. (No longer physically fit for war service). Medal entitlement - 1915 Star, BWM, VM and the SWB [Information and photograph kindly provided by Charles's grandson, Dave Risley]
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