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  • PRESTON
  • CH
  • CHARLES HENRY
  • Birmingham
  • England
  • labourer
  • He was a 'home child' and lived in the Middlemore Waifs and Strays Society Home in Birmingham; at the age of ten he was sent to the Colonies, aboard a steamship from Liverpool, arriving in Halifax, May 1907

Military service

  • 24 November 1914, Saint John, New Brunswick
  • 69779
  • Private
  • 26th Bn. New Brunswick Regiment
  • 5th Brigade
  • 2nd Canadian Division
  • C.E.F.

Death

  • Whilst taking part in a raid on the enemy trenches on the morning of May 1st, 1916, he was severely wounded by a piece of shrapnel from an enemy shell.
  • Died of gunshot wounds left temple, in n°3 Can CCS.
  • 6 July 1916
  • 20
  • VIII - C - 4A

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