Charles Watkins

Biography

Charles Watkins (1895-1989) served as a private soldier with the 1/6th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, a Territorial unit headquartered in Rochdale. He fought with the 1/6th Lancs Fusiliers at Gallipoli.

Later he gained a commission with the Royal Air Force as a balloon observer.

Watkins survived the war, and wrote his Gallipoli memoir in 1970.

A biography of Watkins can be found in Little Gully’s edition of Lost Endeavour.

Books by Charles Watkins

Lost Endeavour

By Charles Watkins, Michael Crane (Editor), Bernard de Broglio (Editor)

The Gallipoli Campaign is not short of operational histories, but few accounts get into the mind of the private soldier so successfully.

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