Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Samuel Beaver a Domestic Groom and Gardener, born 1871 in Oakham, Rutland and his wife Rosa Elizabeth, born 1873 in Manton, Rutland. Charles Thomas was born in 1899 in Oakham, Rutland, he had one sibling, Mary Eleanor, born 1897 in Oakham, Rutland, in March 1901 the family home was at Angel Yard, Northgate Street, Oakham, Rutland. In April 1911 Charles was a Schoolboy and Paperboy and was residing in the family home at Gas Street, Oakham, Rutland together with his parents and siblings, Mary, George Samuel, born 1903 and Edith Elizabeth, born 1910, both siblings were born in Oakham, Rutland. He was a junior porter on the railway before the war. He embarked for France on Easter Sunday 1918. His Battalion was in the line defending the Craonne position on the Aisne in May 1918, when the German’s got through a gap, enfiladed the line with machine guns and took a number of prisoners. Charles being one of them he was taken to the Langensalza Prisoner of War Camp in Germany, whilst there he succumbed to pneumonia and was buried in the camp cemetery, being followed to the grave by a contingent of N.C.O.’s and men of various regiments. His parents did not hear of his death until the 4th January 1919. The Chaplain a native of Kettering, who sent the news and also buried him was a prisoner of war and had been in Germany for three years.