The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Second Lieutenant H C Fry

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Second Lieutenant Horace Charles FRY, 5th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment and 47th Squadron, R.F.C., died in an aeroplane accident, 23/24th February 1917, age 22.

Son of Charles Hodges & Kate Ellen Fry, of Aldine House, Bedwell Road, Belvedere, Kent.

24th June 1894, St John the Baptist, Erith, baptism of Horace Charles Fry, son of Charles Hodges, (Assistant Clerk Local Board), & Kate Ellen Fry, 85 West? Street.

1911 Census - Holme House, Aldine, Bedwell Road, Belvedere, Kent. - Charles Hodges Fry, head, age 39, married, oil works manager, Oil Refining Company, born London; Kate Ellen Fry, wife, age 40, married 17 years, 4 children, 3 still alive, born London; Horace Charles Fry, son, age 16, single, junior laboratory assistant (assistant chemist), Oil Refining Company, born Erith; Kathleen Nellie Fry, daughter, age 7, born Erith; Muriel Emily Fry, daughter, age 2, born Belvedere; Emily Elizabeth Pudney, servant, age 21, single, domestic servant, born Belvedere.

29th May 1916, posted BEF; 19th August 1916, 2nd Lieutenant H C Fry transferred to Royal Flying Corps.

Report on accident.

Buried at Erith (Brook Street) Cemetery, F.70., Erith, London Borough of Bexley, Greater London.

London Gazette 6th June 1916.

Royal West Kent Regiment. - 2nd Lieutenant H. C. Fry, from a Service Battalion, to be 2nd Lieutenant, with precedence as from 1st December 1914. - 7th June 1916.

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