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2nd Lt. Charles Horace Larkins
British Army 16th (Public Schools) Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:652 Old Kent Road, London
(d.21st Nov 1917)
Charles Larkins and his brother Ernest joined up in 1914. Charles joined the 16th Battalion (Public Schools) brigade of the Middlesex Regiment.
He served as a Private at the Battle of the Somme and survived. He was sent back to England for Officer Training and returned to his old Battalion in 1917. He died of wounds on his 21st birthday.
It is not known which Public School he attended as he came from a working family in the east end of London. It is likely that he was picked out as being intelligent at an early age and sponsored by either a benefactor or the Church to attend a Public School. Before the war, he worked at the factory which employed his father, Charles worked in the office.