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Private Charles Calvert was called up 22 Feb 1917 and although intended for the 1st/4th East Yorkshires he was instead switched to the 9th Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment. He arrived in France 18 Jun 1917 and was given leave in Feb 1918 to get married in the UK. On 9 Apr 1918 he was seriously wounded in the leg and badly gassed and was repatriated to hospital in Liverpool on 16 Apr 1918 where he remained until 20 Nov. Charles recovered and was moved to Beverley to join the 507th and then the 414th Agricultural Companies of the Army Labour Corps. Charles left the army Dec 1919. He was awarded the War and Victory Medals.
Charles was born in Beverley 18 Jan 1898 and baptised 20 Nov at St Mary’s Church. His father Abraham Walter Calvert was a joiner, born in Beverley 1864. His mother Sarah Ann Starkings born 1864 was from Bourne, Lincolnshire. They married in Stamford in 1886. They had five sons. The family home was originally in Wood Lane and later Norwood and by 1911, 31 Wilbert Terrace. Charles became a farm labourer, a “horseman” according to his army service records.
On 16 Feb 1918 at Routh Charles married Elsie Kitchen, born in 1898, the daughter of a farmer from Arram, near Beverley. They had two children George born Nov 1918 (and later a horseman himself) and Sydney born 1925. In 1919 Charles returned to work on the land and was working at Top Farm in Etton; by the mid 1920s he was working in the Pocklington area and is recorded in the 1939 Register at Hill Farm, Pocklington as a farm foreman. Charles died in Hull in 1973
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