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Charles Jude was born in Beverley the 20 Nov 1883. He was the youngest of nine children born to John Jude and Harriet Bales who married in 1865. John Jude was a farm labourer originally from Garveston, Norfolk; he later worked as a general labourer, latterly for Beverley Corporation. John remarried in 1886 and with his new wife Margaret Ford had a further four children
Charles was brought up on School Lane, Walkergate, Trinity Lane and later Chantry Lane, Beverley. He initially worked as a labourer on the North Eastern Railway (NER) but spent most of his life as a good’s porter or railway dock loader in local freight yards. On 7 Sep 1903, whilst living in the village, Charlie married at Sigglesthorne Parish Church. His new wife, Ella Winifred Smith, born locally in 1880, worked as a domestic servant in Hull. They had four children.
Charles served in the Royal Garrison Artillery, 6th Mountain Battery, attached to the Indian army at Peshawar and Rawlpindhi as part of the North West Frontier Force. The border between British India (now part of Pakistan) and Afghanistan was quiet during WW1 but the Third Anglo-Afghan War broke out in May 1919 and lasted for four months. Charles was involved in the fighting along the Khyber Pass and his Mountain Battery would have delivered large explosive shells capable of destroying enemy fortifications. He was awarded the Indian General Service Medal (Afghanistan clasp) for this action as well as the War and Victory Medals.
He resumed his work on the railway after the war and in 1935 was living along Swinemoor Lane. His wife died in June 1935 and was buried at Beverley’s Queensgate Cemetery. Charles latterly lived at 105 Grovehill Road. He died, aged 89, on 14 Sep 1973 and was buried at Queensgate Cemetery four days later.
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