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Charles Brighouse, aged 23, from Hornsea served as a Rifleman in the 21st Kings Royal Rifles Corps, in the 15th Platoon of D Company part of 124th Brigade and 41st Division. He was killed in action on 22 Jun 1916 in the Ypres Salient in Belgium. He is buried at Berks Cemetery Extension, Comines-Warneton, Hainaut, Belgium. He is remembered on the WW1 plaque in Hornsea Memorial Gardens and was posthumously awarded the War and Victory Medals.
Charles left the UK for Canada on 24 Mar 1910 as part of an assisted emigration scheme. His destination was Humboldt in the prairies of Saskatchewan. His shipping papers indicate that "farming" was his aim in Canada. He returned to the UK in Dec 1915 via New York. After a short stay in Hornsea he enlisted in the army on 10 Jan 1916 and reported for training at Helmsley on the 12th. He arrived in France on 5 May.
Charles was born in Hull in 1892. He had two sisters, Doris born 1891 and Marjorie born 1894, and a brother Gilbert born 1906. His father, Charles Davidson Brighouse was a chemist and druggist, originally from Askrigg in Wensleydale, who served his apprenticeship in Horncastle, Lincolnshire before moving to Hull to work. He married Sarah Jessie Brighouse Piper in 1890. They lived on Beverley Road and had two chemist shops in the area. Charles' grandfather, Thomas Brighouse (1834-1906) was a Wesleyan Methodist Minister. In 1899 the family moved to Hornsea, on the Esplanade and later Marine Road. Charles' father died in 1919 and in 1923 the family moved to America, to Bellingham in Washington State on the West Coast. His uncle Stanley F Piper born Hull in 1884 had migrated to that area in 1907. His mother was to die there in 1927
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