Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of John H. Baines a Journeyman Miller, born 1849 in Newark, Nottinghamshire and his wife Fanny, born 1850 in Collingham, Nottinghamshire. Charles was born in 1885 in Bottesford, Leicestershire, his siblings were George, born 1880, Ellenor, born 1883 and Walter, born 1888, all his siblings were born in Bottesford, Leicestershire. In March 1901 the family home was at 2, Grantham Road, Bottesford, Leicestershire. In April 1911 Charles was employed as a Clerk to a Hosiery Machine Builder and was residing as a boarder at 12, Richmond Street, Leicester.