The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private G H Locke


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Private George Henry LOCKE, G/18842, 11th  Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 4889, Middlesex Regiment), killed in action, Polygon Wood, Flanders, France, 20th September 1917, age 24. 

Born 12th September 1893, Rougham, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, son of Albert Locke, and Alice Locke, of Moat Cottage, Rougham, Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk.


1911 Census - New Cottagea, Rougham, Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk - Albert Locke, head, age 41, married, stockman on farm, worker, born Rougham, Suffolk; Alice Locke, wife, age 40, married 18 years, 8 children, all still alive, born Rougham, Suffolk; George Locke, son, age 17, single, farm labourer, worker, born Rougham, Suffolk; Albert Locke, son, age 16, single, farm labourer, worker, born Rougham, Suffolk; Alfred Locke, son, age 13, farm labourer, worker, born Rougham, Suffolk; Arthur Locke, son, age 12, school, born Rougham, Suffolk; Evelyn Locke, daughter, age 9, born Rougham, Suffolk; Lilian Locke, daughter, age 7, born Rougham, Suffolk; Herbert Locke, son, age 5, born Rougham, Suffolk; Rowland Locke, son, age 1, born Rougham, Suffolk.


Enlisted 10th June 1916, Wood Green, Middlesex.

Commemorated at Tyne Cot  Memorial, Panel 106 to 108., Belgium & on Rougham War Memorial.


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