BORN HULL 1890. SON OF WILLIAM BRIDGES (1860-1938) AND MARY ELLEN MAXWELL (1862-1961), AT 19, NICHOLSON STREET, HULL. (CWGC ADDRESS). SON OF A NEWSAGENT. ONE OF SIX CHILDREN. HE HAD THREE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS.
CHARLES WORKED AS A FLOUR MILL LABOURER IN HULL. LATER HE MOVED AND LIVED IN URMSTON, MANCHESTER, WHERE HE ENLISTED IN THE LOCAL 2/5TH MANCHESTER REGIMENT. WOUNDED AT POPERINGE, BELGIUM. HE DIED OF WOUNDS, AT THE 4TH CASUALTY CLEARING STATION, ON 21/10/1917, AGED 27.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, WILLIAM BRIDGES. HE ALSO LEFT £230 IN HS WILL TO HIS FATHER WHO WAS A NEWSAGENT.
HE IS COMMEMORATED AT ST MARYS CHURCH, SCULCOATES LANE, HULL.
HIS BROTHERS ARTHUR & TOM CLAUDE BRIDGES ALSO SERVED IN THE WAR FROM THIS ADDRESS.
First name:
CHARLES FINNEY
Regiment:
Military Number:
202563
Rank:
Private
Date Died
21/10/1917
Place died:
Nine Elms British Cemetery,West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
27
19 , NICHOLSON STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
