{"id":2432,"date":"2025-10-14T18:41:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/?page_id=2432"},"modified":"2025-11-16T20:36:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T20:36:53","slug":"elementor-2432","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/elementor-2432\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Favell 1074201 RA"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Charlie was born 16th August 1910 in Hemingford Grey.\u00a0 His mother was Maria Favell, a single woman with five children.\u00a0 Two daughters and three sons.\u00a0 Ethel, Frederick, Violet, Walter, and Charlie.\u00a0 Maria worked as a Charwoman at the Railway Hotel, St Ives, but had also spent time in the Union Workhouse where four of the children were born..<\/p>

Charlie was in his late twenties at the outbreak of war and was working as a Chicory Drier at the Chicory Factory in St Ives.<\/p>

His older brother Walter had signed up as a regular soldier in the Tank Regiment in 1926, but didn’t manage to pass his examinations, so immediately relisted in the 5th Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment as a part time Territorial Soldier, while working for the St Ives Gas company.\u00a0 He was recalled for full time service in 1939 and is believed to have seen action in France with the British Expeditionary Force and been evacuated from Dunkirk.\u00a0 Charlie may well have done the same.<\/p>

Charlie was a Gunner in the Royal Artillery, in the 145\/35th Light Anti Aircraft Regiment.<\/p>

The Hunts Post later carried the report of his brother Walter’s death while fighting in North Africa and also stated that Charlie himself had been listed as ‘missing’ in Malaya for over twelve months.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Charlie had actually been captured by the Japanese and was taken prisoner in the February of 1942, and not released until 1945.<\/p>

Charles married Doris Allen in 1947.\u00a0 In 1948 they had a son, Maurice Steven Favell.<\/p>

Charles died in 1979.\u00a0 His death is believed to have been suicide and the result of never being able to shake of his experiences as a Japanese POW in Malaya.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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So far as I can tell, Charles’s Great Grandfather was John Favell, born 1805, who married Lucy King.\u00a0 John and Lucy were my 4x Great Grandparents.\u00a0 I find it a fascinating coincidence that Charlie’s son Maurice, like myself, should have an interest in MG cars.\u00a0 Not only racing MG TDs, but also making and supplying replacement ash\u00a0 frames for their bodywork.\u00a0 Is there some DNA going on here!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Charlie Favell Charlie was born 16th August 1910 in Hemingford Grey.\u00a0 His mother was Maria Favell, a single woman with five children.\u00a0 Two daughters and three sons.\u00a0 Ethel, Frederick, Violet, Walter, and Charlie.\u00a0 Maria worked as a Charwoman at the Railway Hotel, St Ives, but had also spent time in the Union Workhouse where four […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_canvas","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2432","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2664,"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2432\/revisions\/2664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.favell.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}