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Gnr. Charles Herbert Cannon
British Army 48th Brigade, 155 Battery Royal Field Artillery
from:Hertford
Apparently, my grandfather, Charles Cannon volunteered on the 4th of August 1914 aged 19. Before the war he had worked as a gardener, but his father was a drayman in Hertford for the McMullen Brewery, so he was familiar with horses, hence I believe his recruitment to the RFA. The 48th Brigade was part of the 14th (Light) Division that was sent to France in May 1915. From the available material he would have seen action several times, including the Somme. The Brigade left the Division in January 1917 to form a new Army Brigade, but I have been unable to trace him after this time. However he was in England in December 1917 when he married my grandmother in Hertford. He returned to civilian life as a gardener in Ingatestone and for the Colchester Parks Department. He died in 1957.
