CHARLES OULD 1901–1970
Born 28th November 1901 in St Olave Bermondsey, London
Died December 1970 in Bristol district, age 69
Brother of John Ould who died of wounds 8th August 1916 in France
1911 Census
Age 9 living on Bingham Road, Radcliffe on Trent, with mother Catherine, charwoman (housework) and his sisters Margaret 16, Ellen 12, brothers John 15 and Richard 7. He was employed as a printer at Edmund Wright’s, Bailey Lane. Catherine is recorded as wife not head of the family (father absent on the night of the Census?)
Military Service
From the UK, Royal Navy Registers of Seamen’s Services:
Rank: Able Seaman
Service Number: J90518
Military Unit: Royal Navy
Theatre of War: UK
First service date 26.6.18
Signed up for 12 years on 28.11.19, then served continuously to 1945
Height 5feet 6⅝inches; chest 34½inches; hair brown; eyes brown; complexion fresh; occupation: packer
Service Record:
| Ship | Rating | From | To |
| Ganges | Boy 2 | 26.6.18 | |
| Ganges | Boy 1 | 22.11.18 | 6.3.19 |
| Pembroke I | 7.3.19 | 24.4.19 | |
| Tiger | 25.4.19 | ||
| Tiger | Ordinary Seaman | 28.4.19 | |
| Tiger | Able Seaman | 11.12.20 | 26.1.20 5 days cells |
| Tiger | 1.2.21 | 22.5.21 5 days cells | |
| Tiger | 28.5.21 | 30.9.21 | |
| Pembroke 1 | 1.10.21 | 23.1.22 | |
| Marlborough | 24.1.22 | 1.5.22 | |
| Calypso | 2.5.22 | 4.5.22 3 days cells | |
| Calypso | 19.5.22 | 15.8.23 | |
| Egmont | 15.9.23 | 16.9.23 | |
| Calypso | 17.9.23 | 1.4.25 | |
| Ganges | 2.4.25 | 27.8.26 | |
| Pembroke 1 | 28.8.26 | 30.8.26 | |
| Columbine (Wessex) | 31.8.26 | 1.1.28 | |
| Pembroke 1 | 2.1.28 | 30.6.28 | |
| Pembroke 1 (Malcolm) | 1.7.28 | Service is assumed to be continuous as no further “To” dates are given | |
| Pembroke 2-4 (Wivern) | 1.1.29 | ||
| Pembroke 1-3 | 19.2.29 | ||
| Sussex | 26.3.29 | ||
| Pembroke 1 | 7.10.31 | ||
| Pembroke 1 | 7.1.32 | ||
| Pembroke 1 (Ambuscade) | 22.4.32 | ||
| Pembroke 1 | 9.6.32 | ||
| Pembroke 1 | 15.9.33 | ||
| Kent | 25.5.34 | ||
| Pembroke 1 | 21.12.36 | ||
| Wildfire | 16.2.37 | ||
| Pembroke 1 | 26.2.37 | ||
| Sheffield (F.A.A.) | 31.8.37 | ||
| Pembroke 1 | 15.1.38 | ||
| Pembroke 2 (Foxhound) | 7.5.38 | ||
| Cormorant (Foxhound) | 1.1.41 | ||
| Pembroke | 17.9.45 | Released in Class A |
15.9.25: Granted G1 (first Good Conduct badge). This gave him an extra penny per day on his pay
22.1.28: Granted G2 (second Good Conduct badge)
19.9.28: Fracture of right scaphoid bone (in the wrist)
By 20.11.37 he had 3 Good Conduct badges
Notes on his record state ’Paid War gratuity (WW1), HMS ‘Tiger’ list’ and ‘War gratuity paid HMS Pembroke (WW2); another note states ‘Traced pension 26/7/45’
Address 42 Sneinton Dale, Nottingham at the end of WW2
Medals Awarded: British War (WW1)
Ships served on
The following information is adapted from www.naval-history.net and Wikipedia:
HMS Ganges: training ship based in Shotley
HMS Tiger: battlecruiser which in 1920 was part of the Atlantic Fleet
HMS Pembroke: base depot in Chatham
HMS Calypso: light cruiser of the Caledon Class
HMS Egmont: base ship in Malta
HMS Columbine: shore base; the tender was Wessex, a destroyer which was part of the Atlantic Fleet
HMS Pembroke 2: base depot in Chatham; the tender was HMS Malcolm, a Scott-class destroyer
HMS Wivern: V&W-class destroyer serving Pembroke 2-4, base depots in Chatham
HMS Sussex: County-class heavy cruiser, commissioned March 1929, serving in the Mediterranean.
HMS Ambuscade: destroyer serving as a tender to Pembroke 1 in April 1932
HMS Kent: County-type heavy cruiser, recommissioned 25.5.34 for service on China station, Hong Kong. Returned to Chatham from Hong Kong in late December 1936 for re-fit
HMS Wildfire: Naval depot at Sheerness recommissioned on 16th February 1937 as a boys’ training establishment, having been closed since 1922
HMS Sheffield (Fleet Air Arm): Town-type light cruiser, commissioned for service in the 2nd Cruiser Squadron on 25th August 1937
HMS Cormorant: Royal naval base in Gibraltar, served by HMS Foxhound, an F-class destroyer based in the Mediterranean during 1940-41
Reasons for inclusion on Radcliffe on Trent Roll of Honour
Lived and worked in Radcliffe on Trent
HMS Tiger