The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private H S Searle

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Inscription - "SADLY MISSED"

Photograph by "Claude Laignel" 

Private Harold Stanley SEARLE, TF/241287, 6th Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 20th November 1917, age 22.

25th September 1895, born Branscombe, Devon, son of William and Ellen Searle, of Church Row, Branscombe, Devon.

1911 Census - Church Row, Branscombe, Devon - William Searle, head, age 58, married, Cliff Farmer, own account, born Branscombe; Ellen Searle, wife, age 58, married 36 years, 10 children, 7 still alive; Harry Searle, son, age 26, single, Cliff Farmer, father, born Branscombe; Stanley Searle, son, age 15, single, born Branscombe.

Enlisted Axminster, Devon.

Buried at Fifteen Ravine British Cemetery, III. B. 20., Villers-Plouich,  III. B. 20., France. Commemorated on Branscombe War Memorial.