Notes for: Charles Montague Chaplin

Cambridge Chronicle 17 Oct 1917:

We regret to announce that Second Lieut. Charles Montague Chaplin, the only surviving son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Chaplin, of Dalreagh, Chaucer Road, Cambridge, has been officially reported as missing since September 26th. Lieut. Chaplin, who was 35 years of age, was educated at Saffron Walden Grammar School and served his apprenticeship with Messrs. Robert Bond and Son, auctioneers, surveyors, etc., Ipswich. In 1906 he emigrated to Canada where he took up farming at Regina, in Saskatchewan. Coming over to England with the Canadian Expeditionary Force he went to France with Princess Patricia's Light Infantry. In November last he was wounded and invalided home, and on his recovery went through four months training as a cadet, subsequently gaining his commission and being attached to the Cambridgeshires. He has only been back at the front a few months. Mr. and Mrs. Chaplin, it will be remembered, lost their elder son, Major Chaplin, a short time ago.