Charles Feather - CSM. - Died 5th. August 1994 aged 68yrs after a long illness.

He enlisted first into the Royal Navy on 9 December 1943 and transferred after 8 months to DLI, then KOYLI in 1944 and finally Som LI on 25 March 1947 and served in that Regt until discharged on 16 November 1947.

He re-enlisted into Som LI on 5 March 1952, where he served with BAOR, FARELF and MELF, and on amalgamation, with SCLI on 7 November 1959. He served with the SCLI in Osnabruck, Gibraltar and Berlin.

In 1965 he was posted to DCLI TA at Bodmin as PSI.

In 1967 he was posted to 1 KOYLI/2LI in Berlin as CSM.

In 1969 he moved to 1 LI in Northern Ireland, then Lemgo in 1970 and finally to the LI Depot at Shrewsbury, where he was discharged from the army on 6 November 1972 after serving for a total of almost 24 years.

Later he joined the TA serving with 6 LI in Cornwall in the rank of WO2.


 

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