Charles Hull

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Charles Hull was born in East Knoyle, Wiltshire, on 26 Feb 1894 and baptised there at the Congregational Chapel on 4 Jun 1894 the son of Edwin George Hull and Anna Hull (nee Merryweather).  He lived his early life at Milton, East Knoyle.  He enlisted with the Royal Marines Light Infantry on 11 Dec 1915 (Service No. 2069/S). It is not known in which theatre of war he served but he was awarded the Victory and British War Medals on his discharge.  He married Dorothy Annie Wendel at Christchurch with St. Mary's Church, Swindon, Wiltshire, on 5 Feb 1917 and by the 1921 Census he was living at 11 Bath Road, Swindon, working as a Great Western Railway Porter.  By the time of the 1939 Register he had moved to 52 Winifred Street, Swindon, Wiltshire, now working as a GWR Yard Foreman.  His death was recorded in Wrexham, Clwyd, Wales, during 1978.