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217991Charles Spall
Royal Navy HMS Clan Macnaughton
from:4 Havelock Place, Bethnal Green, London.
(d.3rd Feb 1915)
Charles Spall was born 16th Sept. 1891 and baptised 4th Oct. 1891 at St. James the Great, Bethnal Green. He was the son of Charles James Spall, a cabinet maker of 55 Fellow Street and Mary Ann Spall nee Edwards who had married in 1888 at St. Thomas, Bethnal Green. Charles James father, James Spall, had also been a cabinet maker. In 1912 Charles Spall married Lilian Pask at St. James the Less, Bethnal Green. Charles was 21 years old, a cabinet maker [3rd generation] of 5 Havelock Place and Lilian was the daughter of Joseph Pask a labourer. Lilian worked in a printing works and her address was 2 Havelock Place. Their marriage took place on 7th April 1912.
When war broke out in 1914 Charles joined the Navy and as a member of the carpenters crew and only two years after his marriage he died along with all the others when the vessel HMS Clan MacNaughton was lost off the coast of Scotland. Charles James Spall not only had to cope with the loss of his son but in 1918 his brother Benjamin Spall also died. Benjamin had signed up on the 15th August 1914. He is shown on the Commonwealth War Graves site as having died on 13th Nov. 1918 aged 45 years of age. He was a L/Corporal in the Northumberland Fusiliers and was buried in Nottingham General Cemetery. Benjamin had married quite late in life. He married Louisa Miller in 1910 in Nottingham and only eight years later Louisa like Lilian was a war widow.
I am not related to Charles Spall but a one name researcher working on the name Spall. This has helped me to realise how WW1 affected the ordinary man and woman, how lives were lost and others spoilt as a result of this terrible war.
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