Charles Farmer

Leading Signalman Charles Farmer, R.N. (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 3/2/93. According to a Red Cross list of 20/6/16 he was a POW in Dulmen, Westphalia. He was transferred to a POW camp in Brandenburg on 27/6/16. His next of kin was his sister Maud Whitley of 26 Market St, Caledonia Rd. She was informed that Charles was "missing" on 6/6/16.

In a letter from Germany on 20/8/16, Farmer was described as having been captured at Skagerack on 31/5/16 with a cut in the chest.

A telegram was sent to his brother Thomas of 82 Drayton Park, Highbury on 20/6/16 saying that Charles Farmer and Frederick Arthur Gordon Elliott were POW's