Charles W Pound

Rank: Driver

Regiment: Motor Transport, Army Service Corps

Other Info: The text reads: “In the ‘Observer’ next Saturday will appear an interesting narrative which Driver C W Pound … has sent to his old school fellow W T Divall, a Hastings schoolmaster, giving some of his experiences at the Front. Driver Pound was some years ago employed at the ‘Hastings Chronicle” office in Havelock Road. The above photograph shows him with his wife and eight children. The ninth, his eldest daughter, is not shown. In his letter he mentioned that his youngest child, born during the battle of Ypres, has been named Robert Ypres Pound”. Additional name information from the Lives of the First World War website.

Published: October 1915

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