B68844 Rifleman Charles Robert Gummow was born in Milestone, Saskatchewan on 6 November 1924, the son of William James Gummow and Margaret Evelyn  Hankinson. At 16, he left after two years of high school.

He served in the Algonquin Regiment from April 1941 to 1943.

When Gummow enlisted in the Army at Parry Sound in 1943, he’d worked operating a cordite area for Defense Industries Limited in Noble, Ontario, and previously for eight months on a farm.

After training in Brantford and Camp Borden, Gummow arrived in England in March 1944. After D-Day, he joined the Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada as a replacement for Baker Company on 7 July 1944. was wounded on 18 July, wounded again on 29 July, and taken back on strength with the QOR on 4 November 1944.

Rifleman Gummow was seriously wounded on 19 December 1944 in an attack on an isolated house in the Wyler Berg area of Holland. He died four days later of his wounds, aged 20.

He is buried in Bergen-Op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery, grave reference 5. H. 5. His family had the following epitaph included:

ALL HE HAD, HE GAVE
THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE
IN PEACE
SADLY MISSED AND REMEMBERED