Charles William Shore (b. September 22, 1899) was the son of Thomas W. and Katherine Shore of Sebringville, Ontario, and at least one sibling, a sister, Jennie B. Shore. Misrepresenting his age, Charles W. Shore enlisted in the military in 1916, and was sent overseas to England where he served as a mess orderly in the early stages of the war. His family's efforts to have him discharged on the grounds that he was underage were rebuffed by the war office, although they promised not to send him to France before he turned 19. Shore was eventually sent to France about the time the war ended.