Digitized Service Record World War 1
Digitized Service Record World War 2
Source: Via comment from John P. Sargeant at Remembering Chatham-Kent Heroes entered and administered by Dawn Heutson.
Family Search: When Private Charles Earl Pelkey was born on 1 May 1895, in Thamesville, Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada, his father, Alfred R. Pelkey, was 26 and his mother, Margaret Pelky, was 22. He married Elizabeth Mary Burness on 25 December 1926, in Alameda, Moose Creek No. 33, Saskatchewan, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Ontario, Canada in 1895 and Alameda, Moose Creek No. 33, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1940. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1941, at the age of 46, his occupation is listed as barber in Alameda, Moose Creek No. 33, Saskatchewan, Canada. He died on 2 June 1945, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at the age of 50, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Note: This soldier may have been under aged having been born in 1900. He enlisted in the RCAF and served until his death in 1945.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 