The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private C R Foster

Private Charles Robert FOSTER, G/23833, 2nd Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died, Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, 11th September 1917, age 34.

Born Longfield, Kent.

1905, June Quarter, Lambeth Registration District, married Elizabeth Mary Elliot, of I, Cannonbury Cottage, Cemetery Road., Deal, Kent.

1911 Census - Charles Robert Foster, head, age 2, married, cab driver, born Turners Oak, Ash, Dartford, Kent; Elizabeth Foster, wife, age 27, married 5 years, 1 child, still alive, born Sutton at Hone; Ronald Charles Foster, son, age 7 months, born Longfield, Dartford, Kent.

Enlisted Ash, Kent.

Buried at Amara War Cemetery, XIV. B. 7. Iraq.

NOTE from CWGC - In 1933, all of the headstones were removed from this cemetery when it was discovered that salts in the soil were causing them to deteriorate. Instead a screen wall was erected with the names of those buried in the cemetery engraved upon it.

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