BORN BOSTON. LINCS. 16/03/1888. SON OF JOHN CHARLES RAINEY (1858-1902) & ELIZABETH STORR (1865-1914), OF HULL. A FORMER SHIP’S MATE ON A STEAM KEEL. HE RESIDED IN HULL. HIS SISTER RESIDED AT 539 HESSLE ROAD, HULL.
HE ENLISTED IN THE ARMY IN CANTERBURY, KENT. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 7967, EAST KENT REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED AS CORPORAL, TO THE 1/5TH LOYAL NORTH LANCASTER REGIMENT. DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 03/06/1917, AGED 29. UNMARRIED. BOTH PARENTS DECEASED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS SISTER, LILY. HE LEFT BROTHERS, WILLIAM AND GEORGE GREENFIELD. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 27/06/1917. *
HE IS BURIED AT VLAMERTINGHE MILITARY CEMETERY, BELGIUM. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, ” MAY HIS REWARD BE AS GREAT AS HIS SACRIFICE”
First name:
CHARLES
Military Number:
260004
Rank:
Corporal
Date Died
03/06/1917
Place died:
Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery, West Vlaanderen, France
Age:
29
17 PROVIDENCE PLACE, FINKLE STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
