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1. Charlie Williams MBE was born on 23rd September, Royston, a small mining village in Barnsley, West Riding of Yorkshire. His father, also Charles, had come to Britain in 1914 from Barbados, and enlisted in the Royal Engineers.
2. After the First World War, his father settled in Royston, where he sold groceries from a horse and cart, and married a local woman, Frances Cook.
3. His father had been forced to give up his job as a greengrocer as a result of trench foot acquired in France, and depended on National Assistance.
