The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private A Styles


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Private Alfred STYLES, G/53, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment,  killed in action, Flanders France, death presumed on or after, 3rd July 1916, age 24.

Born Pembury, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, son of Alfred & Selina. Styles, of Hernwood Lodge, Sevenoaks, Kent.


1911 Census - Smallstone Cottages, Goathurst Common, Ide Hill, Sevenoaks, Kent - Alfred Styles, head, age 49, married, farm labourer, worker, born Pembury, Kent; Selina Styles, wife, age 43, married 21 years, 6 children, 2 still alive, born Spalding, Lincolnshire; Alfred Styles, son, age 18, single, labourer, traction engine, worker, born Pembury, Kent; Christopher Styles, son, age 15, single, stone quarry labourer, worker, born Pembury, Kent.


Enlisted Maidstone, Kent.

1st June 1915, posted BEF.

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 11C, France, and at St Marys Church, Ide Hill, Kent.


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