Family :

Education & Career :

Educated at Hastings Grammar School.

He went to Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 1889.

Ordained deacon in 1894; Priest (Rochester) 1895; Curate of Penge, 1894-6. Vicar of Orroroo, South Australia, 1896-8. Rector. of Port Augusta, South Australia, 1898-1902. Curate of Christ Church, North Adelaide, 1902-4. Rector of Gawler St George, S. Australia, 1904-6. Curate of West Hampstead, 1906-7. Vicar of South Lyncombe, Somerset, 1907-15.

During the Great War, 1914-18, Chaplain to the Forces. Died Oct. 16, 1915, in Flanders, of wounds received in action.

He is buried in Flanders in Belgium.

His wife Joanna died in July 1958 at Beckenham, England.

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

"The Battle of Loos (25 September to 18 October 1915) was the major battle on the Western Front in 1915, surpassing in every respect all that had gone before in terms of numbers of men and materiel committed to battle. The preliminary bombardment was the most violent to date and the battle was charaterised by the committment of Regular and Territorial battalions on a large scale, in which the Territorials performed just as well as the Regulars. As the battles on the Western Front in 1915 increased in size and violence, so the casualties increased in proportion: Neuve Chapelle 12,000, Aubers Ridge/Festubert 29,000 , Loos 60,000. 1916 was to take the casualty cost to another level. Loos was intended as a minor role in support of French efforts around Arras but circumstances reduced the French effort. It marked the first use of poison gas by the British. Once the initial assualt had failed the battle continued in a series of actions mostly focused on the northern sector around the tactically important Hohenzollern Redoubt."

Detail :

Best of Good Fellows: the Diaries and Memoirs of the Rev. Charles Edmund Doudney, M.a., C.F. (1871-1915) by Charles Edmund Doudney price: ?2.68 Ships from UNITED KINGDOM Binding: Hardcover Publisher: J. Horne Date Published: 1995 ISBN-13: 9780951214084 ISBN: 095121408X 4th Class

Masonic :

Chaplain
Joined Royal Cumberland Lodge from South Australian Constitution.

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley
• Researcher : Tom Hawley
• Website : Province of Somerset List