Other Information:Charles qualified M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O. in Dublin in 1904. By 1913 he had become a Specialist in Bacteriology. He joined the Indian Medical Services on 1st February 1905 at the rank of Lieutenant, gaining promotion to Captain on 1st February 1908. He served in India from 1905 to 1911. On 31st March 1911, he took up a commission in the R.A.M.C. and was at the R.A.M.C. College when war was declared. He entered the war in France on 14th August 1914 as the Medical Officer to the 1st Bn. Black Watch. He was wounded on 14th November and invalided back to the UK - announced in the British Medical Journal on 28th Nov 1914. After recovering he served in the UK in the Cambridge Hospital. On 15th October 1915, he gained the rank of Major. Charles went to India in 1919 to 1923, then served at the A.D.P. War Office from 1927 to 1931, during which time he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on 15th September 1928. On 3rd June 1931 he was awarded the O.B.E. From 1931 to 1933 he served again in India. He retired on pay on 5th November 1935, but was re-employed on 25th September 1939 and was stationed at the Emergency Vaccine Lab at Tidworth from 1939 to 1940. He reverted to r.p. on 13th October 1940.
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