The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private H Fox

Private Henry FOX, G/4998, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, death presumed on or after, 5th May 1915, age 27.

Born Badlesmere, Kent, son of Edward and Elizabeth Fox, of Shottendon, Chilham, Canterbury.

1911 Census - Little Bowerland, Chilham, Canterbury - Robert Millgate, head, age 53, married, farm bailiff, born Gravesend, Kent; Fanny Millgate, wife, age 53, married 33 years, 3 children, 2 still alive, born Norton, Kent; Minnie Beed, daughter/visitor, age 24, married 1 year, 1 child, born born Gravesend, Kent; Marjorie Beed, grand daughter, age 7 months, born Lynsted, Kent; Henry Fox, boarder, age 23, single, horseman on farm, born Badlesmere, Kent.

Enlisted Faversham, Kent, age 27 years & 1 month, heigh 5ft 6 ½ inches. Resided Fisher Street, Badlesmere, near Faversham, Kent. Formerly labourer.

15th December 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 23rd December 1914, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 22nd April 1915, posted BEF; & 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 5th May 1915, posted missing.

Commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Panel 45 and 47, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

External link to Shottenden War Memorial

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