William Charles George Ginn

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William Charles George Ginn was born in Shaftesbury, Dorset, on 9th October 1884 and baptised at Holy Trinity Church on 4th December 1884, the son of William Ginn and Jane Ginn (née Stroud).  William Charles lived with his family in Shaftesbury until 1891 when they moved from the area.  William married Emma Yandell on 21st September 1910 at Christchurch, Hampshire, and they had at least one child.  They lived by then at 53 Sea Road, Pokesdown, Hampshire, where William was working as a milkman.  

He enlisted on 8th December 1915 and was placed on reserve with the Worcestershire Regiment (Service No. 30350).  He was mobilized on 2nd June 1916 when he joined the 17th Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment as a Private (Service No. 381018).  He was again transferred to the Army Service Corps on 28th December 1918 as a Driver (Service No. T/446804).  He was demobilized on 27th September 1919 and awarded the Victory and British War medals.  Both the 1921 Census and 1939 Register show he was living at 13 Livingstone Road, Pokesdown, Hampshire, latterly working in a Royal Navy Cordite Factory.  He died on the 1st November 1959 in Christchurch Hospital.