Background
He was apprenticed to his father, Tom Cannon, Senior, as a jockey at 14.
He was apprenticed to his father, Tom Cannon, Senior, as a jockey at 14.
Charles enlisted in the 19th Hussars Glocstershire regiment and was commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the first World War. He saw action in Ypres, the The Somme and other campaigns. Cannon was shot in the head, buried alive, and received shell shock and mustard gassed injuries, which he recovered in Netley in 1919.
Charles married Dorothy Thrush in 1916 and moved to West Wellow.
They went had nine children named Tom, Peter, Margeret, Nina, Mornington, Joan, Sheila, Terence, and Patricia.