Charles Gordon Farr
Rank: Captain
Regiment: 4th and 6th Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers
Parents: Mr Herbert Frank & Mrs Kate Louise Farr
Address: 7 Chalcott Gardens, Hampstead, London, formerly Marina, St Leonards
Other Info: An article published in the Hastings & St Leonards Observer on 13th July 1918 reads; “died on March 25th of wounds received in action on March 23rd”
According to CWGC, Charles died aged 27 and is remembered at Etaples Military Cemetery, grave reference XXVIII.E.3.
Published: June 1918
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Charles Gordon Farr was born in 1890 in Paddington, Middlesex.
In the 1901 census the family was at 125 Marina, St Leonards on Sea. His father Herbert Frank Farr was a retired clothworker -- at only 34 years old.
In the 1911 census at 169 Goldhurst Terrace, London, Charles was a shipping manager living with his mother Kate Louisa, no occupation stated, three boarders and a servant. He was one of two children but the only one alive. The first son, Herbert Frank, had died in 1909 in Camden. His mother was "married" but her husband was absent.
Charles Gordon Farr's English estate of £196 went to administratrix Kate Louise Farr, widow. She was also awarded a pension of £100 p.a. by the authorities, presumably as she would be in hardship. In 1939 mother Kate was living in Hampstead, and she died in hospital in 1947.