Name
Charles Edmund Kimber
7/01/1898
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/05/1918
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Air Mechanic 2nd Class
59534
Royal Air Force
54th Sqdn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
IX. B. 79.
France
Headstone Inscription
REST IN PEACE EVER IN OUR THOUGHTS MUM & DAD
UK & Other Memorials
Cheshunt Town Memorial, Church of St Mary the Virgin Memorial Cheshunt
Pre War
Charles Edmund Kimber was born in Cheshunt, Herts, on 7th January 1898, son of Edmund Kimber a, Carman and Emily Kimber (nee Jeans). The youngest of two children.
1901 Census records Charles aged 3, living with his parents and sister Lilian (8) at, 37 Albury Grove Road, Cheshunt, Herts. The family had three Boarders living with them.
1911 Census records Charles aged 13, living with his parents at, 1 Cosy Cottage, Cheshunt, Herts The family had two Boarders living with them.
Charles married Florence Adelaide "Ada" Newton, the daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Newton of Edmonton, Middx, in 1917, in Edmonton. They went on to have a son Lawrence Francis Kimber.
Wartime Service
Charles enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps, in February 1917, (later to become the Royal Air Force when the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Flying Corps were amalgamated on 1st April 1918), issued with the service number 59534, he trained as an Air Mechanic.
He died on 14th May 1918, aged 21, of Pneumonia. At the time of his death he was serving with 54 Squadron in France. He is buried in the Boulogne Eastern Cemetery in France.
Additional Information
Florence received a widow’s pension of 20/5 a week from 21st November 1918, her address on the pension card was, 22 Raynton Road, Enfield Wash, Middx, and his effects of £8-11-6, pay owing and his war gratuity of £4-10-00.
Florence remarried in August 1923, at the Church of Saint George, Enfield Wash, to Herbert Thomas Finch.
Herbert Thomas Finch was a Sergeant in the RFC/RAF in the Great War.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild
