Charles Arthur Raven

A Seaman with H.M. Drifter Ocean Retriever. Charles died on 22nd of September 1943 at the age of 39. 

Charles was born at Mutford on 10 February 1904, a son of Alfred and Louisa Raven. In 1911 his family lived at Beccles Road, Mutford. In 1921 Charles lived at Beccles Road with his widowed mother and he was an unemployed shipyard worker. 

In 1929 Charles married Ethel May Rivett at Mutford. In 1939 they were living at Tunns Cottages, Rushmere, Suffolk, and Charles worked as a drift-net fisherman. 

Charles was serving on H. M. Drifter Ocean Retriever when it detonated a mine and sank in the Thames Estuary. All eleven crew were killed.