Charles Farmer

Leading Signalman Charles Farmer (3 February, 1893 – ?) was one of the only two survivors of H.M.S. Indefatigable when that ship sank at the Battle of Jutland in 1916.

Charles Farmer was a signaller numbered J8713. He was born on 3 February, 1893. According to a Red Cross list of 20 June, 1916 he was a Prisoner of War (P.O.W.) in Dulmen, Westphalia. He was transferred to a P.O.W. camp in Brandenburg on 27 June, 1916. His next of kin was his sister Maud Whitley of 26 Market St, Caledonia Rd. She was informed that Charles was "missing" on 6 June, 1916.

In a letter from Germany on 20 August, 1916, Farmer was described as having been captured at "Skagerack" on 31 May, 1916 with a cut in the chest.

A telegram was sent to his brother Thomas of 82 Drayton Park, Highbury on 20 June, 1916 saying that Charles Farmer and Frederick Arthur Gordon Elliott were P.O.W.s.