Name
Charles Ernest Canvin
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
78154
Royal Field Artillery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Charles Canvin was one of five brothers from Grove Wharf that served during the Great War. He was born in the summer of 1896 at Kensal Green. He was one of twelve children born to Albert and Clara Canvin. In the 1901 and 1911 Census the family lived at Grove Wharf. In 1901 Albert was employed as a Miller’s Carter, and in the 1911 Census he worked as a General Labourer. By 1911 Charles worked as a Farm Labourer.
Charles, together with his four brothers, were not registered in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour until September 1916, however it was likely that more than one of them would have been engaged in War Service from much earlier in the War. Charles’ Medal Roll Card recorded that he was sent to France on 22nd December 1914, so it was likely that he was serving as a Regular Soldier before the War commenced. Charles was not recorded in the Abbots Langley Roll of Honour in January 1917, and for the following months, which may have indicated that he had been wounded and was recovering at a hospital. However he was recorded in the Roll of Honour from January 1918 through to the end of the War.
He was not recorded in the Absent Voters Records, however his Medal Roll Card noted that he was still serving with the Royal Field Artillery on 19th March 1920, which may have indicated that Charles was a full time Soldier before the War, and continued in Service after the conflict ended.
Charles and his four brothers all survived the War, and were also commemorated in the Kings Langley Parish Roll of Honour.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
