The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private A G Hart

Private Alfred George HART, G/4984, 1^st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Hill 60, Flanders, France, 18th April 1915, age 45.

Born Upper Halling, Rochester, Kent,

24th September 1905, Offham, Kent, married Edna Walker, of Freezeland Cottage, Upper Halling, Rochester, Kent.

Children - Dorothy Hart, born 24th October 1903, Upper Halling; Gladys Hart, born 8th April 1906, Snodland; Alfred Hart, born 5th March 1908, Snodland; James Hart, born 28th September 1911, Snodland; Henry Hart, born 1913, December quarter, Snodland.

1911 Census - Freezeland Cottage, Upper Halling, Rochester, Kent - Alfred George Hart, head, age 41, married, cement worker, cement works, born Upper Halling, Rochester, Kent; Edna Hart, wife, age 26, married 5 years, 5 children, 3 still alive, born Derby, Derbyshire; Dorothy Edna Walker Hart, daughter, age 7, at school, born Upper Halling, Rochester, Kent; Gladys Annie Hart, daughter, age 4, born Freezelands, Snodland, Kent; Alfred John Hart, son, age 2, born Freezelands, Snodland, Kent; Annie Hart, sister in law, age 47, widow, born Coombhill, Meopham, Kent; Eben Hart, nephew, age 16, single, employed on farm, born Upper Halling, Kent; Feodora Hart, niece, age 15, single, born Upper Halling, Kent; Mildred Hart, niece, age 13, school.

Previously served in Royal West Kent Regiment.

Enlisted 14th December 1914, Maidstone Kent, age 44, height 5ft 6 inches, 152lbs. Resided Upper Halling, Rochester, Kent. Formerly labourer.

14th December 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 5th January 1915, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 11th March 1915, posted BEF & 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

1st November 1915, pension of 24/6 a week awarded to widow and five children.

21st May 1920, Statement of Relatives - Widow, Edna Hart, Freezeland Cottage, Upper Halling; Children - Dorothy Edna Hart, born 1903, Freezeland Cottage, Upper Halling; Gladys Anne Hart, born 1906, Freezeland Cottage, Upper Halling; Alfred John Hart, born 1908, Freezeland Cottage, Upper Halling; James Hart, born 1911, Freezeland Cottage, Upper Halling; Henry Hart, born 1913, Freezeland Cottage, Upper Halling.

Commemorated Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Panel 45 and 47, War Memorial, Snodland Cemetery and St. John the Baptist Church, Halling, Kent.

NOTE: see also Ebenezer Henry HART

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