Source: 18th Battalion Nominal Roll, April 1915.
British Home Child per is attestation papers. Joined underage. Birthday is May 16, 1898.
A British Home Child that served with the CEF. Private Charles Hulley first enlisted with teh 18th Battalion on October 24, 1914 at Galt, Ontario giving his birthday as May 16, 1896. He joined under ages as the database shows his year of birth as 1899 and his gravestone is inscribed with the year 1898.
Regardless, he joined and served with the 18th Battalion until being transferred to the 2nd Canadian Machine Gun Company on December 25, 1915. He served with that unit until suffering concussive shock from shell-fire and was invalided to the 6th Canadian Field Ambulance on August 7, 1916.
Having suffered a hearing impairment and the loss of movement of his two big toes due to a dropped ammunition box he was eventually removed to Canada and discharged from active service.
For some reason he felt the need to re-enlist and on March 21, 1917 with the 63rd Battery at Windsor, Ontario. He served in Canada only and was discharged on 18th of August, 1917 having served with the Forestry Depot.
In his service record he lists his sister as a next of kin. She is a Miss Violet Hulley. He also list a brother, William Henry Hulley, 1st Connaught Rangers, Indian Expeditionary Force as his next-of-kin.
We find him having moved to Alberta where he is buried at Mountain View Cemetery Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada having died February 24, 1969. He was married to a Louisa Appleton Hulley (1896–1986) and has four children recorded having died:
Kenneth Charles Hulley
1921–1948
Cicely May Hulley Lacaille
1927–2016
Lola Patricia Hulley
1931–1978
Sheila Maureen Hulley Ryan
1934–2018
Of note, his service record indicates that he was had “irregularly enlisted” which means that he was probably still under-age when he enlisted in 1917.
Lethbridge Herald February 25, 1969
HULLEY – Resting at the Memorial Chapel, 703 13th St. N. Passed sway in the city on Monday, February 24, 1969, following a short illness, Charles, aged 70 years, beloved husband of Mrs. Louisa Hulley of 1010 1st Ave. S.
Besides his loving wife, he Is survived by one son, Victor, of Penticton, B.C.; six daughters, Mrs. R. (Doreen) Grange of Cranbrook, Mrs. P. (Cicely) Lacille of Montreal, Mrs. B. (Aileen) Kasperski of Barrie, Ontario, Mrs. D. (Olive) Bissell, Mrs. K. (Sheila) Ryan and Miss Lola Hulley, all of Lethbridge; twenty – five grandchildren and one great – grandchild; two sisters and two brothers in England and one sister in Winnipeg.
He was predeceased by one son, Kenneth, in 1948.
Born in Sheffield, England in 1898, the late Mr. Hulley came to eastern Canada in 1912, and in 1919 moved to Lethbridge. He served with the R.N.W.M.P. following his service in the First World War and was a veteran of the Second World War.
Prior to his retirement in the early 1950’s be served 27 years with the Fire Department.
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Lethbridge Herald February 28, 1969
HULLEY — Funeral service f o r Charles Hulley, beloved husband of Mrs. Louisa Hulley of 1010 1st Ave. S. who died here Monday, Feb. 24, after a short illness it the age of 70, was held Thursday afternoon in the Memorial Chapel, 703 13th St. N. with Rev. R. V. K. Elliott officiating. Pallbearers were Jame s L. Livingstone, James H. Hines, Douglas Ferguson, Wilfred Russell, Felix Londeau and Harry Harrold.
Interment was in the Field of Honor in Mountain View Cemetery. Martin Bros. Ltd., Directors of Funeral Service, was in charge of the arrangements
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Publication: Lethbridge Herald
Issue Date: February 25, 1969
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 