The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private G Seeney

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Private George or William Stanley SEENEY, G/2967, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 28th February 1916, age 17.

11th June 1898, born St James, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, son of Charles Cave & Elizabeth Louisa Seeney, of 80, St. James' Park, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

1911 Census - 4 Dorking Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent - Charles Cave Seeney, head, age 57, married, house painter, worker, born Paddington, London; Elizabeth Seeney, wife, age 53 married 28 years, 8 children, 7 still alive, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Annie Seeney, daughter, age 21, single, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Nellie Seeney, daughter, age 16, single, born Southborough, Kent; William Seeney, son, age 12, school, born Southborough, Kent; George Seeney, son, age 9, school, born Southborough, Kent; Robert Fraser, visitor, age 28, single, motor driver, born Edinburgh, nationality Scotch.

Enlisted Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

Buried at White House Cemetery, III. R. 24., St Jean-les-Ypres, Belgium. Commemorated Tunbridge Wells War Memorial / St James Church, Roll of Honour /  St James Church, Lych Gate, Tunbridge Wells, Kent

NOTE: Regimental History shows initial as G; Soldiers Died in the Great War show firstname as George; CWGC web site show first name as William.