224530 Pte. Charles Albert Moffatt British Army 11th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment from:Smethwick Charles Moffatt was the only man left to go to war in our family, so although it meant leaving his wife to manage six children, he felt it was his duty to go. He worked mostly in the cookhouse for the regiment. It is rumoured he deceived them regarding his age and marital status, such was his determination to sign up. He was 38 in 1914.
He didn't talk of the war when he came back but what he experienced clearly impacted on him because he told his children there could be no God.
The war medal he was given was supposedly thrown by him into a river or canal.
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