Born in the parish of Fordwick, near Canterbury c.1823
Enlisted at Canterbury on the 23rd of May 1839.
Age: 16.
Height: 5' 8".
Trade: None.
Appearance: Fresh complexion. Grey eyes. Brown hair.
Tried by a Regimental Court-martial on the 4th of April 1850 and imprisoned to the 23rd of May.
Invalided to England from Scutari on the 12th of June 1856.
Discharged from the Curragh Camp on the 15th of August 1865 as, "Free, at own request, to Out-pension."
Served 24 years 19 days. In Turkey, Bulgaria and the Crimea, 2 years.
Aged 42 years on discharge.
Conduct: "very good".
Twenty-one times entered in the Regimental Defaulters' book. Once tried by Court-martial,
Awarded a pension of 13d. per day.
Living in the Canterbury Pension District in 1873.
Next of kin (in 1854): wife, Eliza Cart.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
Documents confirm the award of the Crimean medal with four clasps.
"Balaclava" clasp sent on "O/C's certificate, dated the 13th of December 1856."
His name was in the 1877 list of members of the Balaclava Commemoration Society, but not on the 1879 revised list.
1871 Census
8, Church Place, Ramsgate, Kent.
The 1871 Census shows him as aged 48, a "Chelsea Pensioner", born at Sturry, Kent, living with his wife Eliza, 43, born at Poplar.
1881 Census
171, King Street, Ramsgate.
In the 1881 Census he is shown as a "Pensioner & Bricklayers labourer", born at Fordwick, Kent, with his wife Eliza.
1891 Census
152 King St, Ramsgate.
By 1891, his birth date shown as 1816 [?], he was a widower, occupation Labourer. [RM]
Admitted as an In-Pensioner at Chelsea Royal Hospital on the 1st of July 1891.
At the time of his entry into the Royal Hospital Chelsea as an In-Pensioner on the 1st of July 1891 he was 68 years of age, "can hardly earn", and had formerly lived at No. 171 King Street, Ramsgate, Kent. There is no mention of any family,
Reverted to Out-Pension on the 1st of April 1894. He later asked for re-admission, but this was refused — "So many candidates."
An enquiry was made "as to his whereabouts" on the 6th of December 1901, but there are no further entries as to any result from this.
Death registered
The death of Charles Cart, 77, is shown in the GRO registers in the Chelsea Registration district during the June quarter of 1898.
Eliza Cart, 65, March Quarter 1891, Thanet.
Registration of death for Eliza Cart kindly provided by Chris Poole.