Charles Edward Wiseman

(Trooper - Sussex Yeomanry?)

Charles Edward Wiseman, the son of Robert Wiseman and his wife Susanna (Clarke), was born on 14th December 1892 in Hethersett, Norfolk. He was the third of seven children, Alice (1889), Arthur (1891), Robert (1894), William (1896), Frederick (1902) and Violet (1907) although Alice was born Alice Barbara Clarke a few months before Robert and Susannah married and Robert died before reaching his second birthday. Robert and Susannah married on 4th December 1889 at Hethersett having both been born and raised there. Robert was a coal dealer but, by the time he was 50, had become a farm labourer.

In 1915 Charles Wiseman married Edith Eva Gooderham and they had a daughter, Freda, in 1923. Edith died in 1930, at the age of 44, and Charles was remarried, to Sophia King on 28th November 1931. Charles Edward Wiseman died in 1970 near Fakenham, Norfolk.

According to the Roll of Honour in the church Charles served in the Sussex Yeomanry as a trouper during WW1. Extensive searches of the database at the Imperial War Museum, detailing every man that served and his unit, reveals several records for a Charles Wiseman - unfortunately none relate to anyone serving in the Sussex Yeomanry. Similarly, a search of every Sussex Regiment, Territorial etc. has drawn a blank so, for the time being, his army career is a mystery!

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