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CHARLES HENRY DANNATT
BORN HULL 15/03/1891. THIRD SON OF ALBERT DANNATT (1864-1939) & MARY JANE ROWBOTTOM (1864-1928), OF 68, YORK STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A FLOUR MILL LABOURER. ONE OF ELEVEN CHILDREN. HIS FOUR BROTHERS ALSO ENLISTED IN WW1.
LIKE HIS FATHER, HE WAS EMPLOYED AS AN OIL MILL (SEED CRUSHING) LABOURER.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS BOMBARDIER, 65991, ROYAL FIIELD ARTILLERY. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 16/10/1918, AGED 27. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE RETURNED TO HIS FATHER, ALBERT.
HE IS COMMEMORATAED ON THE VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL, FRANCE.
HIS ELDEST BROTHER, JOHN WILLIAM DANNATT, 1726, 40TH RGA, RECEIVED THE SILVER WAR BADGE (NO:410538) FOR PRIOR MILITARY SERVICE.
HIS SECOND BROTHER, JAMES ALBERT DANNATT, 12/1486, SERVED WITH THE 12TH EYR, IN EGYPT AND FRANCE.
HIS FOURTH BROTHER, PRIVATE, ARTHUR RICHARD DANNATT, 2397, 1/4TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 24/09/1916, AGED 23.
HIS YOUNGEST BROTHER GEORGE EDWARD DANNATT, 61310, 8TH ROYAL DEFENCE CORPS, ENLISTED ON 3 SEP 1914. DISCHARGED ON 26 MAR 1918 WITH THE SILVER WAR BADGE (NO:344489).
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