The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Corporal E V Freed

Corporal Edward Valentine FREED, S/9260, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, on or since, 7th October 1916.

Born Maidstone, Kent, son of Edward Freed.

1911 Census - 18 Sun Road, Swanscombe, Greenhithe, Kent - Edward Freed, head, age 45, married, cowman on farm, born Sutton Valence, Kent; Hannah Freed, wife, age 39, married 16 years, 8 children, 7 still alive, born Maidstone, Kent; Edward Freed, son, age 16, single, assisting with cows, born Maidstone, Kent; Ernest Freed, son, age 15, single, born Maidstone, Kent; Violet Freed, daughter, age 11, born Maidstone, Kent; Joseph Freed, son, age 9, born Maidstone, Kent; William Freed, son, age 6, born Maidstone, Kent; Alice Freed, daughter, age 6, born Maidstone, Kent; Lucy Freed, daughter, age 2, born Swanscombe, Kent.

Enlisted Gravesend, Kent.

8th September 1915, posted BEF.

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 11C, Somme, France, and on Swanscombe War Memorial.

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