The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private A M Marsden

Private Albert Marmaduke MARSDEN, G/11909, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 3rd May 1917.

April 1891, born Bexhill, Sussex, son of Frederick Marmaduke & Julia Sarah Marsden.

7th June 1891, Newhaven, Sussex, baptism of Albert Marmaduke Marsden, son of Frederick Marmaduke & Julia Sarah Marsden.

1911 Census - 3 Northcote Road, Tonbridge, Kent - Frederick Marmaduke Marsden, head, age 48, married, cricket ball maker, worker, born Blackheath, Kent; Julia Sarah Marsden, wife, age 41, married 20 years, 8 children, all still alive, born Newhaven, Sussex; Albert Marmaduke Marsden, son, age 19, single, Gentleman's Servant, Private Service, born Bexhill, Sussex; Frederick Marmaduke Marsden, son, age 15, single, junior clerk, worker, born Bexhill, Sussex; Patrick Gladstone, Marsden, son, age 12, school, born Tonbridge, Kent; Mary Marsden, daughter, age 10, school, born Tonbridge, Kent; Alice Elizabeth Marsden, daughter, age 7, school, born Tonbridge, Kent; John Marmaduke Marsden, son, age 5, born Tonbridge, Kent; Joan Marsden, daughter, age 2, born Tonbridge, Kent.

16th January 1915, Roman Catholic Church, Tonbridge, Kent, married Alice Gorham, spinster, 5 Stafford Road, Tonbridge, Kent.

Children - Wilfred Marmaduke Marsden, born 24th February 1916, Tonbridge, Kent, died 1916 March Quarter, Tonbridge Registration District, age 0.; Cyril Albert Marmaduke Marsden, born 10th June 1917, Tonbridge, Kent.

Enlisted Tonbridge, Kent, age 24 years & 10 months, height 5ft 8¾ inches. Resided 5 Stafford Road, Tonbridge, Kent / 40 Rose Street, Tonbridge, Kent / 1 Colston Orchard, Welling, Kent. Formerly labourer.

Home, 14th January 1916 to 18th May 1916; BEF, 19th May 1916 to 3rd May 1917.

14th January 1916, enlisted; 15th January 1916, to Army Reserve; 18th January 1916, mobilized & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 26th January 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 19th May 1916, posted BEF & 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

Commemorated at Arras Memorial, Bay 7, France; Bexhill War Memorial; Little Common War Memorial.

Commemorated on Tonbridge War Memorial - Tonbridge War Memorial - The original World War I memorial at the Junction of Pembury Road and Quarry Hill. The names were later re-inscribed in the new Memorial Garden in Bradford Street.

From Tonbridge History - Albert Marmaduke Marsden was born in Battle in 1891, son of Frederick and Julia. He married Alice Gorham in 1915 and is listed as living at 40, Rose Street then 5, Stafford Road. He was a labourer before joining the Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment 7th Battalion as Private G/11909 in January 1916. On 3th May 1917 he was coming off outpost duty when he was fatally hit by a sniper he is remembered on the Arras memorial.

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