T/Const Charles James Arthur Giddy

 

1894 Jan 17. Born Kent on RIC Register, but he was actually born in South Africa on the date he gave RIC

 

1911 Feb 25 A plumbers Assistant of no fixed abode, he was charged in Barking of stealing sweetmeats from an automatic machine at Tilbury Dock Station.

 

1914 Dec 30 Enlisted in Royal Artillery. He had been a ship's fieman, and lived in King Arthur St, Old Kent Rd. He claimed to have been born in Maidstone , Kent

1915 Mar 14 Landed in Egypt.

 

1921 Jan 21. Enlisted with RIC no 78172 & Adric 596. Plumber & ex-Soldier

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1921 Nov 11 Married Cecilia Mary Flynn in Dublin. He has given his name as Charles Terence. Basically the only man that it coiuld be is Charles James Arthur Giddy . And the date of the marriage is in his RA attestation which is under his correct name

 

1930 Dec 24. Discharged from RA. He must have re-enlisted

 

1932 Electoral Roll living in Wandsworth with Cecilia Mary

 

1939 Register at 160 Victoria Terrace Queen's Road, Battersea, with wife Celia. He is a restaurant chef. She later remarries Reginald J O'Brien in 1953 in Wandsworth after her husbands death

 

1949 Died Wandsworth

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