Charles King

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Charles King was born in 1888 in Lacock, Chippenham, Wiltshire. He was the son of Jesse King, a gamekeeper, and Harriet King (née Holley). At the time of the 1911 Census he was single, was working as a cabinet maker and living with his parents at Higher Coombe, Donhead St. Mary, Shaftesbury. He enlisted in Salisbury as a Private in the 2nd Battalion of the Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire) Regiment (Service No. 23746). He served in France & Flanders and was awarded the Victory and British War medals. He died of wounds on 1st April 1918 and his name appears on the St. Quentin German Cemetery Memorial 10, which is part of the wider St. Souplet British Cemetery complex at St. Souplet, Nord, France. He is also remembered on the Cann War Memorial, Shaftesbury and the memorial at Ludwell in Wiltshire. His mother was in receipt of a dependent's pension until her death in 1925 when it transferred to his father until he passed away in 1928.