article_snippet.sent: Charles served in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War, and because Charles was aged 39 when the Second World War broke out, Charles initially joined the Home Guard.
article_snippet.sent: However Charles transferred to the regular Army, and was eventually sent to Germany.
article_snippet.sent: After the war, Charles returned to Charles work as a vicar, and raised two children, Tom's grandmother Ruth and sister Joan before dying aged 54, in 1953.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Marshall said: 'I never knew Charles as Charles died 35 years before I was born