Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Alfred Ball a Pharmaceutical Chemist, born 1841 in Loughborough, Leicestershire and his wife Mary B., born 1850 in Loughborough, Leicestershire. Charles Frederick was born in 1880 in Loughborough, Leicestershire, his siblings were Alfred K., born 1877 and John B., born 1878, both his siblings were born in Loughborough, Leicestershire. In April 1881 the family home was at 14, High Street, Loughborough, Leicestershire. He later married and became the husband of Alice A. Ball. He died from wounds suffered at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, Turkey.