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Charles Robert Anthony and his elder brother, Thomas, both took part in WW1 but the only specific information about them is taken from photographs which were published in the Beverley Guardian on 30 Dec 1916, when they were both said to be “At the Front”. Charles Robert was serving as a Driver with the ASC, and Thomas as a Driver with the RAMC, both were awarded the British War and Victory Medals.
Charles born in Walkington in 1891, the son of Robert Anthony, of Atwick, farm worker and Ada, nee Duke, from Aldbrough. Charles lived with his parents in Bishop Burton in 1901, by 1911, aged 19, he was employed as a waggoner at Raikes Farm, Cherry Burton. At the time of his marriage, aged 32, he was a railway shunter, he married Ethel May Bell on 14 Jun 1924, at St Augustine’s Church, Newland, Hull. Ethel was the daughter of Charles Edward Bell, a railway platelayer and his wife Ruth. Charles and Ethel had a son, Charles Robert born in 1933.
In the 1939 Charles was a patient in the Hull & East Riding Convalescent Home, Queen Street, Withernsea, he was still working as a ‘railway shunter – heavy work’. The family home was 38 Manvers Street, Hull. Charles died in 1974, aged 83. Ethel died in 1981, aged 82.
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