From the May 7th Victoria and Vancouver (Canada) Times Colonist.
Clausw Choules was born March 3, 1901, but went through life being called Charles.
At the outbreak of World War I, Mr. Choules tried to join te British Army as a boy bugler by lying about his age. Instead, in 1915, he was sent to a boys training ship, the HMS Impregnable.
His first assignment in the Royal Navy was October 1917 on the battleship HMS Revenge as a boy-seaman, first class. The revenge had fire more than 100 15-inch shells at the Battle of Jutland in 1916.
Choules' next assignment was the fast battleship HMS Valiant where he witnessed the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet at Firth of Forth in November 1918. After the war, he joined the crew of the HMS Eagle, Britain's first purpose-built aircraft carrier.
Quite a Life, But More to Come. --DaCoot
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