Charles Brickell

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Charles Brickell was born in Shaftesbury, Dorset, on 29 Mar 1877 and baptised at St. John's Church, Enmore Green, Shaftesbury, on 29 Apr 1977 the son of Eli Brickell and Mary Brickell (nee Case). He lived all his life, apart from Military Service, in Shaftesbury or Enmore Green. He had enlisted with the Dorsetshire Regiment as a Private on 26 Jan 1893 (Service No. 2436). He had served with the 3rd Battalion until his discharge to the reserves on 29 May 1897. He was recalled to the colours on 3 Jan 1900 and joined the 2nd Battalion being posted to South Africa until finally discharged on 21 Jan 1902. He had been awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal and 6 Clasps and the King's South Africa Medal with 2 Clasps. He married Louisa Gray at St. John's Church, Enmore Green, on 21 Apr 1902. There is limited information on his WW1 military service but he is recorded on the Absent Voters List of 1918 as a Private in the Dorsetshire Regiment (Service No. 2436) and he is also recorded in later Pension Records. By 1921 he was living in Enmore Green, Shaftesbury, described as 'help in garden' for a gentleman in Bimport, Shaftesbury. The 1939 Register gives his address as Knapp House, 21 Enmore Green, Shaftesbury, now described as 'incapacitated'. He died at the Westminster Memorial Hospital, Shaftesbury, on 11 Apr 1947 and was buried at St. John's Church, Enmore Green, on 14 Apr 1947.