Charles was born 1n 1895 in Hornsey, Middlesex. His parents were George & Julia Louisa (nee Pritchard) Greenaway. His father was a cheesemonger in1895 when he married, in 1901 he was a carman in London and in 1911 he and Charles’ mother were caretakers at Tickencote Hall in Rutland. In 1911 Charles and his brother George were boarders living at 5 Milner’s Row, Belton Street in Stamford. Charles was working as an errand boy for a pork butcher. When he enlisted in 1914 he was a house servant at Tickencote Hall.
Private Charles William Greenaway (Reg. No. 14983) enlisted in Aberdeen joining the 9th Infantry Battalion Leicestershire Regiment on 7th September 1914 at the age of 19 answering the appeal of Lord Kitchener.
His first posting was on 21st September 1914. He joined the expeditionary force to France on 29th July 1915. The 9th battalion of the Leicesters had been transferred to the 110th Brigade of the 37th Division. They were mobilised for war and landed in France and engaged in various actions on the Western Front. During 1917 the Germans retreated to the Hindenburg Line, the First and Third Battles of the Scarpe, the flanking operations around Bullecourt, and the Battle of Polygon Wood were fought. On the 1st of October 1917 in Polygon Wood, Charles was killed along with his company commander to whom he was a soldier-servant. This was during the third battle of Ypres in which the battalion gained an important success.
His name appears on the Tyne-Cot Memorial Belgium and also on The Roll of Fallen Heroes in Tickencote Church, Rutland and the Stamford Memorial.

George Phillips wrote: “All who knew Private Greenaway had great admiration and affection for him and the officers all spoke well of him and his work.”

Tyne Cot Memorial

C W Greenaway on Tyne Cot Memorial