No.40703, Private, Charles POWELL
Aged 34
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Another Charles POWELL, but Charles Albert Powell, of the Middlesex Regt is named on his parents monument in the Beck Row Chapel graveyard but named on the KENNY HILL memorial Charles Powell was born in Mildenhall in 1885 (Mildenhall Q1-1885 4A:736B) son of Charles and Ester Elizabeth POWELL (née STEBBEDS). 1891 census...Aged 6, he was at Holywell Row, Mildenhall with his father Charles POWELL [30] farm labourer; his mother Ester E. [29]; brother Frank [8] and sister Elizabeth [1]. All were born in Mildenhall. 1901 census...Aged 16, a farm labourer, he was at Holywell Row with his widowed mother (now recorded as Elizabeth); brothers Frank (bricklayer), Edward [7], Jacob [5] and Henry [9 months]; sisters Elizabeth, Ellen [9] and Lily (Lilian May)[2]. All the new siblings were born in Mildenhall. His father had died in December 1899. In Q4-1907 he married Lilian Annie FLATT in Swaffham, Norfolk. 1911 census...Aged 26 a stone sifter, he was at Holywell Row with his wife Lily Powell [27] born Stanford,Norfolk; daughter Lily Elizabeth [2]; his brothers Edward (bricklayer's labourer), Jacob (cowman on farm) and Henry (scholar). Their daughter Ora was born in 1915 He died, after discharge, in Holywell Row on 14th February 1919 from TB (Mildenhall Q1-1919 4a:1314) The Bury Free Press carried the following:- HOLYWELL ROW SOLDIER'S DEATH- The war has claimed another victim from Holywell Row, and we regretfully record the death of Prvt.Charles Powell, 40703. 1st Essex regiment. He joined the Army in June 1916, and was sent on active service to France, where he contracted pleurisy. Unfortunately this was followed by consumption in his throat. Everything possible was done for him, and, being discharged from the Army, he has passed away at this home. Sympathy is felt for Mrs. Powell, who is left with two children. |
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He enlisted on the 13th December 1915 and served abroad.
Dying after discharge he is not found in "Soldiers Died, or CWGC. Application could have been made to have him added to the National Book of Remembrance His Silver War Badge says he enlisted on 13th December 1915, discharged on 19th April 1917 through sickness, and that he had served overseas. It is however unfortunate that evidence has not been found to link his TB with Army service. It may have been so, but no documentary evidence is found to indicate that the sickness that caused his discharge was TB and brought about or aggravated by military service. His death certificate simply says he was an Army pensioner. It still remains to find where he is buried. Charles was originally named on the Mildenhall war memorial
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