Charles Cannon (jockey)

Charles edward Cannon, was apprenticed to his father Tom Cannon Senior as a jockey at 14 he rode and won the last race at stockbridge in 1898 on moonwave. Charles enlisted in the army (19th Hussars Glocstershire regiment) and was commisioned as Second lieutenant in the first world war seeing action in Ypres the Somme and many other campaigns, during which time received injuries of shellshock, shot in the head, buried alive, and mustard gassed, which he recovered in netley in 1919. Before the war Charles was an acomplished pianist playing piano at the Royal Albert Hall for King Edward or king Teddy who was known well to the Cannon Family where he would stay as a guest of Tom Cannon during the racing season. Charles married in 1916 to a Miss Dorothy Thrush from Bristol, they moved to West Wellow and went on to have Nine children Tom, Peter, Margeret, Nina. Mornington, Joan, Sheila, Terence, Patricia.