206224 Pte. Charles Felix Shaw British Army Royal Engineers My grandfather Charles Felix Shaw enlisted on 3 May 1915 at Victoria Park Square, Bethnal Green and was given an immediate medical. His war record file at Kew shows he was aged 37 and was enlisted in the Royal Engineers. His trade at that time was a "pianoforte finisher". He was sent to France in Feb 1916 and received gunshot wounds on 1 July 1916. He was operated on in France and sent back to England on 18th July 1916. He seemed to be transfered between hospitals in Ipswich, Seaford and Thetford. Whilst in the latter hospital he was diagnosed as having a heart condition and was eventially dischanged as permanently unfit for active service on 7 Nov 1917. He was granted a weekly pension of £1 7s 6d. He brought up 3 children including my father Leonard. He died in London in 1947 of pulmonary tuberculosis
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