BORN HULL 1896. SON OF JOHN THOMAS HOGARTH (1860-1908) AND MARION VEITCH MASON (1862-1938), OF 5 PERCY’S AVENUE, RUGBY STREET, HULL AND 1 ALFRED’S TERRACE, EASTBOURNE STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). SON OF A MERCHANT SAILOR. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER. HIS MOTHER WAS BORN IN SCOTLAND.
HE WAS EMPLOYED AS A PRINTER.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS A DRIVER, IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. CAPTURED ON 27/05/1918. DIED OF PNEUMONIA, WHILE A PRISONER OF WAR, ON 15/10/1918, AGED 22. BURIED GERMANY.
HE WAS REPORTED MISSING IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 21/06/1918, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH.
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH MEMORIAL, NEWINGTON, HULL.
First name:
CHARLES VEITCH
Military Number:
756203
Rank:
Driver
Date Died
15/10/1918
Place died:
Niederzwehren Cemetery, Kassel, Hessen, Germany
Age:
22
