People named Charles Williams

Charles W Williams of Vestal, Broome County, NY was born on December 28, 1922, and died at age 76 years old on November 24, 1999.

Charles L Williams of Buffalo, Erie County, NY was born on July 19, 1923, and died at age 68 years old on January 23, 1992.

Charles J Williams of Cortland, Cortland County, NY was born on February 6, 1923, and died at age 85 years old on April 6, 2008.

Charles M Williams of New York, New York County, NY was born on March 11, 1922, and died at age 73 years old on August 15, 1995.

Charles H Williams of Shirley, Suffolk County, NY was born on February 28, 1921, and died at age 84 years old on March 5, 2005. Charles Williams was buried at Calverton National Cemetery Section 44 Site 1343 210 Princeton Boulevard - Rt 25, in Calverton.

Charles W Williams of Cuddebackville, Orange County, NY was born on May 12, 1897, and died at age 72 years old in August 1969.

Charles E Williams of Catskill, Greene County, NY was born on September 20, 1928, and died at age 58 years old in July 1987.

Charles L Williams of Montgomery, Orange County, NY was born on January 8, 1914, and died at age 63 years old in May 1977.

Charles E Williams of Wantagh, Nassau County, NY was born on July 6, 1922, and died at age 69 years old on November 17, 1991. Charles Williams was buried at Calverton National Cemetery Section 69 Site 897 210 Princeton Boulevard - Rt 25, in Calverton.

Charles T Williams of Waycross, Ware County, GA was born on March 19, 1918, and died at age 65 years old in January 1984.

Charles Williams of Baltimore, Baltimore City County, MD was born on December 1, 1927, and died at age 80 years old on July 19, 2008. Charles Williams was buried at Garrison Forest Veterans Cemetery Section K-11 Row 9 Site 1 11501 Garrison Forest Rd, in Owings Mills.

Charles H Williams of Tulsa, Tulsa County, OK was born on November 15, 1920, and died at age 87 years old on September 16, 2008.

Charles S Williams of Buffalo, Erie County, NY was born on June 24, 1903, and died at age 71 years old in September 1974.

Charles M Williams of Apex, Wake County, NC was born on December 9, 1919, and died at age 88 years old on September 7, 2008.

Charles Williams of Brooklyn, Kings County, NY was born on November 24, 1919, and died at age 63 years old on November 9, 1983. Charles Williams was buried at Calverton National Cemetery Section 10 Site 7736 210 Princeton Boulevard - Rt 25, in Calverton.

Charles Arthur Williams of Marysborough Australia was born in 1865 in Mary, and died at age 69 years old in 1934 in Marysborough.

Charles Robert Williams of Richmond Australia, got married to Florence Emily Taylor in 1915, and has children Charles Thomas Williams and Lorna Louise Williams. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Charles Williams.

Charles Collis Williams of Australia was married to Myra Ellen Gladys Hay in 1940. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Charles Collis Williams.

Charles George Frederick Williams of Hthorn Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Charles George Frederick Williams.

Charles Edward Williams-Walker of Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia was born on February 17, 1947, and died at age 63 years old on October 27, 2010.

Charles E Williams Jr was born on April 2, 1961, and died at age 36 years old on July 19, 1997. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Charles E Williams Jr.

Charles Williams of Bakersfield, Kern County, California was born on November 10, 1900. He was in a relationship with Katherine Kern, and had a child Donald Anthony Kerns. Charles Williams died at age 70 years old in March 1971.

Charles Richard Williams was born on April 22, 1972 in Kansas City, Missouri United States to Gloria Elaine Williams and Charles Alton Williams. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Charles Richard Williams.

Charles Alton Williams was born on May 1, 1940 in Missouri United States. Charles Williams got married to Gloria Elaine Williams on April 25, 1970 in Gladstone, Clay County, and has a child Charles Richard Williams. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Charles Alton Williams.

Charles Williams was born in 1858 in Geelong, VIC Australia. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Charles Williams.

Charles Raymond Williams was born on April 20, 1939. Charles was baptized circa May 1, 1939. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Charles Raymond Williams.

Charles Albert Williams was born on May 23, 1913 in Arapaho, Custer County, Oklahoma United States, and died at age 100 years old on August 16, 2013 in Akron, Summit County, OH. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Charles Albert Williams.

Charles Williams was born on August 3, 1874 in Marinette, Marinette County, Wisconsin United States, and died at age 87 years old in 1961 in Menominee, Menominee County, MI.

Charles Rowland Williams was born March 19, 1909 in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. His father Horace Edward Williams, an emigrant from England, managed a sheep station; his mother Helena was a governess and the daughter of a German Lutheran minister. Charlie was one of 5 children: his older brother Horace Douglas (Doug) (1906-1976), Edward Gordon, who died at or shortly after birth in 1907, Charlie, brother Francis Ainslie (Frank) who died age 4 from diphtheria (1910 to 1914), and sister Sheila (1916-2007). Early education came from their mother and from traveling teachers; later Charlie and Doug attended boarding school in Townsville. His formal education ended at 16 but he was intelligent, well read, mechanically adept, and a hard worker. Charlie was a good mixer with excellent manners and a straight faced, self-deprecating sense of humor. He enjoyed tennis and cricket and was a fine horseman. During his service in the RAAF, he took up squash and golf as well. A slender man of average height, Charlie had fair hair and grey or grey green eyes. In 1933, in the depths of the depression, the Williams’ sheep station was sold out from under them. The family struggled to start over, having to take over another station on very disadvantageous terms, but by the time war threatened, their business was doing better in spite of Horace’s ill-health, as the two brothers stepped up to take over. At the time of Australia’s entry into WWII, they felt they should serve, but agreed that Doug should join the Home Army, and that Charlie, who was eager to see something of the world but had never been further afield than Brisbane, should try for the Royal Australian Air Force. While waiting for the RAAF, he served with Doug in the local Home Army unit, where he learned the use and maintenance of machine guns. In August 1940 he was summoned for his RAAF medical and interview, at which time he became a member of the Reserve; in January 1941 he was called up for training. Like most young men, Charlie wanted to be a pilot, but at 31 it was felt he was too old and he trained as a Wireless Operator/Air Gunner, earning a rare commission as an officer. While training Charlie became engaged to a young nurse named Millie McGuiness. The relationship was not destined to survive separation as after Charlie shipped out to the UK, Millie stopped writing for several months; by the time she started again, Charlie was otherwise involved. Charlie went to the UK via Hawaii and Canada, arriving in November 1941. After refresher training, he was assigned to an Operational Training Unit to learn the ins and outs of crewing a bomber. During this period, he flew two of the three famous “Thousand Bomber Raids” in a Hampden as gunner and wireless operator. In July 1942 he was assigned to 61 Squadron, Bomber Command, a Lancaster unit. He served with distinction and his CO recommended him for the Distinguished Flying Cross, citing his steadiness in combat, efficiency, and good influence on his much younger crewmates. As Paul Brickhill pointed out in his book Dambusters, the DFC was a very unusual award for a wireless operator; most of them went to pilots, bomb aimers, flight engineers, and gunners. Charlie sadly never knew of this honor. While with 61 Squadron, Charlie met and fell in love with a young woman in Nottingham, Gwen “Bobbie” Parfitt. In March 1943 Charlie was asked by his friend F/Lt Norm Barlow, a fellow Australian in 61 Squadron, to join his crew and volunteer for a special unit being formed by Wing Commander Guy Gibson at Scampton: 617 Squadron. Charlie agreed; although he was eligible for 6 months in a non-combat assignment once his tour of operations ended (and in fact had been asked to remain with 61 Squadron as Signals Officer, a very responsible position that would have come with a promotion), he was eager to get his second tour done; he was homesick, his father was terminally ill, probably he was suffering from traumatic stress, and with summer coming he felt that his required 20 ops could be dealt with in 3 or 4 months, and that then, with his combat obligation fulfilled, he could hopefully go home. The fact that the remaining 2 operations of his current tour were evidently forgiven was probably an incentive as well. April found the crew training hard for a secret mission that involved low flying at night but otherwise was a mystery to them. Charlie and Gwen became engaged; her parents objected, not wanting their only daughter to go to Australia. By the time they agreed, Operation Chastise, the Dams raid, was ready for execution and the marriage was put off until afterwards, when the crews had been promised leave. F/Lt Barlow and his crew were assigned to the second wave, set to attack the Sorpe Dam, and on May 16, 1943, theirs was the first aircraft to leave Scampton. They never reached the target; at 23:50 hours their Lancaster, serial ED927/G, coded AJ-E, struck a high tension pylon, exploded, and crashed. The Upkeep mine rolled free, was studied by the Germans, and ironically today provides the best information on the appearance of the live Upkeeps carried on the Dams raid. The cost of Operation Chastise is too often a footnote. 19 aircraft took off; 2 aborted, 1 never found a target, and 8 crashed or were shot down. 53 men died, including Charlie Williams. The crew was buried in a cemetery in Dusseldorf; after the war they were identified and reburied in the Reichswald Forest British War Cemetery. In July 1945, Flying Officer Charles Rowland Williams (since deceased) was finally awarded his Distinguished Flying Cross, “with effect from 15 May 1943.” Sources: An Airman Far Away by Eric Fry, Dam Busters by James Holland, Charles Rowland Williams’ service records in the National Archives of Australia