Charles Ernest Redmile
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Charles Ernest Redmile was born in 1889 at Kneeton and was the son of the late John George Redmile a farming labourer and Elizabeth Redmile née Smith of Newark. His father John George was born in 1853 in Bicker Lincolnshire he died in 1914 aged 62 yrs and his mother Elizabeth Smith was born in 1849 at Scredington, Lincolnshire and died in 1907 in Newark aged 58 yrs. They were married in 1871 at Loughborough and went on to have the following children, George Henry b1872 Burton on the Wolds, Leicestershire, Florence b1881 Aswarby, Lincolnshire, Rose Ethel May b1885 Kneeton and Charles b1888 Kneeton. In the 1911 census Charles Ernest Redmile is living at 30 Eldon Street, Newark, he is shown as being 22 yrs a boarder, a brewer and is living with George Alfred Bennett 40 yrs a blacksmiths striker and his family. His father John Redmile now 60 yrs and a widow and a night watchman is living at Kiveton Park Farm, Kiveton Park, Shefield, he is living with his married daughter Florence Jones 30 yrs and her husband William Jones 31 yrs a horseman on a farm, also living with them is Herbert Jones 6 yrs of age. His sister Rose was also married and became Rose Matthews of 42 Vernon Street, Newark. who became his legatee
Private Charles Ernest Redmile enlisted at Newark, he served with the 1/8th battalion Sherwood Foresters , he was killed in action on 24th April 1915 and is buried in Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery E.74
Five Newark men serving with the 1/8th battalion Sherwood Foresters Regiment were all killed on 24th April 1915, when a German mortar exploded in their trench they were all buried in Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery, Heuvelland, Belgium, they were Privates , Richard East, Charles Redmile, William Godfrey, Walter Hunt and Bert Sketchley Article published 1st May 1915 in the Newark Herald :- Brother of Mrs R.E.M. Matthews, 42 Vernon Street, Newark. He re-joined the Newark Company of the Sherwood Foresters, in which he had served four years, when war broke out. He was employed before mobilisation at Nicholson’s engineering works. Killed along with several other Newark Territorials when a bomb from a German trench mortar exploded in their midst on the morning of Wednesday, April 24th.