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Charles Mortimer joined the 4th battalion Leicestershire Regiment TF
at the Magazine, Oxford Street, Leicester, in 1912. He was given the number 1468. Upon the outbreak of the Great War,
the 4th battalion was split into a 1st/4th battalion and a 2nd/4th. those men who had volunteered for overseas service
comprised the 1st/4th and they were given a rectangular metal badge bearing the words 'Imperial Service'. Charles was soon
in France, experiencing warfare on the Western Front. On 13 October 1915 his battalion took part in the attack on
the hohenzollern Redoubt, suffering heavy casualties in the process. Charles was wounded by a German bullet and eventually
discharged from the army.
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