Charles Robert Oldfield
A Private with 54th (1/1st East Anglian) Casualty Clearing Station, Charles died on 13th of August 1915 at the age of 17.
Charles was born in Norwich in 1897, a son of Christopher Robert and Emma Oldfield. In 1901 his family lived at Yarmouth Road, Thorpe, Norwich. By 1911 his family were living at Park Hill Road, Oulton, Lowestoft, and Charles worked as a gardener's boy at a nursery (possibly with his father).
Charles was living at The Lodge, Park Hill Road, when he volunteered and he joined the Army on 10 February 1915. He served with the local territorial unit of the Royal Army Medical Corps which became part of the 54th (1/1st East Anglian) Casualty Clearing Station.
Charles embarked the Royal Edward at Devonport on 30 July 1915 and arrived at Alexandria on 11 August 1915. The Royal Edward sailed for Gallipoli on 12 August, but was torpedoed and sunk on 13 August. Charles was reported 'missing, believed drowned in the sinking of the Royal Edward.'
The following men served with the Lowestoft detachment of the Royal Army Medical Corps and most were on board the Royal Edward when it was torpedoed on 13 August 1915.
Men from Lowestoft – drowned:
BROWN George CLAY Christopher COATES Reginald Rowland HALL Harry Hayward LEEDS Claude Henry MALLETT Robert Samuel OLDFIELD Charles Robert POPPY Harry Charles REYNOLDS Frank ROBERTS Ernest William SMITH Henry William THOMAS William
Men from Lowestoft – survived:
CLARKE John Welham. GARWOOD Frederick (died from pleurisy 1918)
Men enlisted at, but not from Lowestoft, drowned:
ALLDRIGDE William John BAYFIELD Samuel
Another Lowestoft man, John William FAIRWEATHER, was posted to another medical unit and did not sail on the Royal Edward.
Samuel Augustus PIKE who also came from Lowestoft, but lived in Cambridge, also served with the East Anglian Field Ambulance and was lost when the Royal Edward was sunk.
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Charles Oldfield
Park Hill Road
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