Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Joseph William Riley, a terracotta worker, born 1869 in Snarestone, Leics., and his wife Mary Anne Riley (nee Pointon, married Q4 1894 in the Ashby de la Zouch, Leics. district), born 1866 in Measham, Leics. Charles Herbert was born on the 5th March 1896 in Measham, Leics., his siblings were, Bertie Richard, born 1898 and Joseph William, born 1900, both his siblings were born in Measham, Leics., also residing with the family was his widowed maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Pointon, born 1829 in Measham, Leics., in March 1901 the family home was at Swepstone Road, Measham, Leics. In April 1911 Charles was employed as a brickyard labourer, and was residing in the family home at Bosworth Road, Measham, Leics., together with his father, now a chauffeur, his mother and siblings, Bertie, a schoolboy, Joseph, a schoolboy, John Pointon, a schoolboy, born 1903 and Monica Jenny, a schoolgirl, born 1906, the latter two siblings were both born in Measham, Leics. The family aletr resided at Bosworth Street, Measham, Leics. Charles was resorded as an Army Reservist on the 4th December 1915. He enlisted on the 3rd July 1917 and embarked to join the British Expeditionary Force in France on the 30th October 1917, joining his unit, the Hood Battalion on the 19th November 1917 and serving in that unit until he suffered a shell wound to his jaw on the 31st December 1917 and was invalided to England on the 3rd January 1918. He embarked to join the British Expeditionary Force in France on the 17th May 1918, re-joining the Hood Battalion on the 23rd May 1918 and serving with his unit until he was detached from active service on the 21st June 1918 suffering from influenza. He re-joined the Hood Battalion on the 8th September 1918 and served with this unit until he died of wounds on the 29th September 1918.