Charles was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London - entering as a student in 1900. He obtained the diplomas of M.R.C.S. (Eng) L.R.C.P. (Lond) in 1903, and graduated M.A., B.Ch. (Cantab) in 1904, and M.B. (Cantab) in 1907. He had held appointments of house-physician at the Somerset Hospital, Capetown, and also as a house-surgeon at the South Devon and East Cornwall Hospital. He went into practice at Rugby and was in practice at St Leonard's-on-Sea prior to joining the R.A.M.C. in April 1915. Charles was first attached to the 7th Bn. South Wales Borderers, then later went to Aldershot Command as medical officer in charge of military families at Aldershot. He was on his way to Egypt, in charge of 300 R.A.M.C. officers and men in the S.S. Transylvania when, it was torpedoed. He lost his life whilst trying to save those injured by the explosion. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Alfred Pope of Wrackleford House, Dorset.