204487 Private Prospero "Charlie" Novembrino British Army Manchester Regiment from:43 Taylor St. Hume, Manchester My Grandfather was an Italian migrant from Genoa. he ran away to sea when he was 12 years old and sailed to New York as a Cabin Boy on a huge Steamer, Eventually he attended San Remo Cooking Academy. His profession in England was Chef and he worked at the Grand Hotel in Manchester. He Married Alice Maude Carroll of Hume, Manchester. His nickname was Charlie because he looked like Charlie Chaplin. He was 3 years younger than Alice Maude and was a lodger in her Mother's House. Te local parish priest placed him in that house because Alice was of an Age to marry. Alice died in 1951 at the age of 64. She was 28 and Grandad was 25 when they wed.
He enlisted in the Manchester Regiment and served in France in 1915? He was shot in the groin and was operated on in a field hospital by a captured german surgeon. When he recovered from his wound he was seconded to cook for the Officers. He eventually came home in 1919.
Charlie returned from the war and had a Daughter to his adored wife Alice who was my mother Sheila Novembino. He always walked with a limp and sported a walking cane. He always told us when rain was coming because his war wound used to cause him pain.
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