1898 Jan/Mar Born Tendring Essex His grandmother was German, hence the Carl
1901 census living at 62, Windsor Road, Ipswich St Matthew
1911 census living at Ocean Wave Farm Dovercourt with his grandparents
1915 Feb 13 Posted to France
1919 Mar 30 Posted back to UK
1919 May 26 Attested at Canturbury
1920 Oct/Dec He was married in in Bridge Registration district in Kent (probably at Bekesbourne Church ) to Laura Mepsted . She was born in Challock Kent 1895 the daughter of James Horton Mepsted (1855-1900) and Harriet Noble (1864-1953). After her father's death, her mother remarried John Thomas Burchett or Birchett (the spelling varied) and had two more children with him. Laura and her surviving Mepsted siblings (there were 6 children of Harriet's first marriage) took the surname Burchett or Birchett when their mother remarried, and in the 1911 census, Laura is listed under the name spelling Laura Birchett as a domestic servant in Wingham Well, Canterbury, Kent. She and Carl were married less than a year before Carl was killed. There don't appear to be any children born of the brief marriage. In 1925 Carl's widow Laura Harper, married again to Frederick Ramsden, and in 1927 they had a daughter.
1921 Jun 24 Died in Adavoyle Ambush
Buried Walton St Mary Churchyard, Suffolk