The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private H Fothergill

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Private (Lance Corporal) Harry FOTHERGILL, G/30675, 10th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 36024, Royal Fusiliers), killed in action, Flanders France, 23rd October 1918, age 28.

Born Roundwood, Yorkshire.

1910 June Quarter, Dewsbury Registration District, Harry Fothergill married Mary Westwood, of Barrowcliffe House, Ossett, Yorkshire.

1911 Census - Church Street, Ossett, Yorkshire - Harvey Westwood, head, age 45, married, colliery secretary, born Ossett, Yorkshire; Martha Westwood, wife, age 44, married 20 years, 1 child, still alive, born Kirkhamgate, Yorkshire; Mary Fothertgill, daughter, age 19, married under 1 year, 1 child, still alive, born Ossett, Yorkshire; Harry Fothergill, son in law, age 20, married, shoddy manufacturers assistant, born Alverthorpe, Yorkshire; Dorothy W Fothergill, grand daughter, age 6 months, born Ossett, Yorkshire; Ann Horton, mother in law, age 80, widow, born Liverpool, Lancashire; Joseph Hy Horton, nephew, age 24, single, joiner, house builder, born Ossett, Yorkshire.

Enlisted Ossett, Yorkshire.

Buried at Heestert Military Cemetery, Special Memorial, A. 4, Belgium.

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