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Private E Gammon


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Private Ernest GAMMON, 205073,  2nd/4th  Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 2098, Royal West Kent Regiment, Territorial Force / 208789, Rifle Brigade), killed in action, Egypt, death presumed on or after, 4th November 1917.  

Born Herne Bay, Kent, son of Thomas Gammon.


1911 Census - 169 Heath Road, Battersea, Clapham, SW - William Griffiths, head, age 32, married, railway labourer, South Western, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Elizabeth Griffiths, wife, age 32, married 12 years, 4 children, 3 still alive, born Herne Bay, Kent; William Griffiths, son, age 9, born Herne Bay, Kent; Elizabeth Griffiths, daughter, age 6, born Herne Bay, Kent; George Griffiths, son, age 4, born Battersea, Surrey; Charles Griffiths, son, age 5? months, born Battersea, Surrey; Walter Gammon, relative, age 23, single, railway labourer, South Western, born Herne Bay, Kent; Ernest Gammon, relative, age 20, single, railway labourer, South Western, born Herne Bay, Kent.


Enlisted Canterbury, Kent. 

1st August 1915, posted Balkans Theatre of War.

Commemorated at  Jerusalem Memorial, Panel 41., Israel.


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