Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of John Allen a Bricklayers Labourer, born 1856 in Woodhouse Eaves, Leicestershire and his wife Sarah Jane, born 1855 in Bedminster, Bristol, Somerset. Charles Herrick was a Garden Boy and was born in 1896 in Woodhouse Eaves, Leicestershire, his siblings were, John, born 1875 in Leicester, William, born 1880, Louisa, born 1883, Milly, born 1885, Daisy Mary, born 1889, Wilfred, born 1890, Lloyd, born 1891, Elsie E., born 1892, Baldwin, born 1894 and Frances M., born 1900, all his siblings, with the exception of John were born in Woodhouse Eaves, Leicestershire, in 1911 the family home was at Main Street, Woodhouse Eaves, Leicestershire.