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Private H Stratford

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Private Harry STRATFORD, G/12440, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment,  killed in action, Flanders France, 12th April 1917, age 24.

Born Lower Stoke, Kent, son of Charles & Emma Stratford.

16th October 1893, Stoke Chapel, Methodist Baptism, Chatham Circuit - Harry Stratford, son of Charles, (labourer), & Emma Stratford, Lower Stoke, Kent,

1911 Census - Coal Dealer & Barber, Stoke, Kent - Charles Stratford, head, age 49, married, Carter, own account, born Ivanhoe, Buckinghamshire; Emma Stratford, wife, age 45, married 25 years, 8 children, 6 still alive, born Lower Stoke, Kent; Victor Charles Stratford, son, age 21, single, labourer general, born Lower Stoke, Kent; Harry Stratford, son, age 17, single, boot maker, worker, born Lower Stoke, Kent; Horace Glanville Stratford, son, age 14, apprentice grocery, worker, born Lower Stoke, Kent; Henry John Jarrett, boarder, age 35, single, carrier, own account, born Sittingbourne, Kent; Harry Best, boarder, age 29, single, labourer general, born Chatham, Kent; Walter? Ch? Gilbert, boarder, age 23, single, railway servant, porter, South Eastern & Chatham Railway, born Early? near? Reading? Yorkshire.

1916 September Quarter, Hoo, Kent, Registration District, Harry Stratford married Eva Maud Elliker, Moat Farm, St. Mary's, Hoo, Rochester, Kent.

Enlisted Gravesend, Kent.

Commemorated at Arras Memorial, Bay 7, France.