The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private J Spratt

Photograph by "Len"

Private Jack SPRATT, G/8292, 11th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, (head wound), No.7. New Zealand, Stationary Hospital, France, 5th October 1916.

15th April 1892, born Gravesend, Kent, son of George & Eliza Jane Spratt.

1901 Census - 62 Scott Street, West Ham - George Spratt, head, age 48, married, dock labourer, worker, born Gravesend, Kent; Eliza J Spratt, wife, age 30, married, born Boro', London; George Spratt, son, age 9, born Gravesend, Kent; Ada Spratt, daughter, age 8, born Gravesend, Kent; Kate Spratt, daughter, age 5, born Canning Town, Essex; Emily Spratt, daughter, age 1, born Canning Town, Essex.

8th February 1908, Arethusa & Chichester Training Ships, Greenhithe, First Class Petty Office, with three Good Conduct Badges, height 5ft 2¾ inches, grey eyes, dark brown hair; 29th May 1908, HMS Ganges, seaman boy; 14th May 1909, HMS Leviathan, seaman boy; 10th September 1909, HMS Pembroke, seaman boy; 1st November 1909, HMS Antrim, seaman boy; 2nd March 1910, HMS Hermione, seaman boy; 19th March 1910, HMS Furious, seaman boy; 15th April 1910, (18th Birthday), HMS Furious, Ordinary Seaman; 15th February 1911, HMS Furious, Able Seaman; 16th February 1911, HMS Good Hope, Able Seaman;

1911 Census - Detached Mole, Gibraltar - Royal Navy Vessel, "Good Hope" - G R Spratt, age 18, single, Able Seaman, born Gravesend, Kent.

24th December 1912, HMS Pembroke, Able Seaman; 23rd January 1913, HMS Secla? Able Seaman; 1st January 1914, HMS Dido, Able Seaman; 10th April 1914, HMS Pembroke, Able Seaman;

10th October 1914, Christ Church, West Croydon, Surrey, George Richard Spratt, age 22, bachelor, sailor, 303 Thornton Road, Croydon, father, George Richard Spratt, labourer, married *Agnes Alice Simmons, age 20, spinster, 303 Thornton Road, Croydon, father, Samuel Simmons, stoker. *born 20th March 1895

24th October 1914, St George Moy, Able Seaman; 27th May 1915, Immingham, jumped ship.

Children - George Samuel Spratt, born 16th July 1915, mothers maiden name Simmons.

Enlisted Royal West Kent Regiment, Lambeth, SE. Resided Croydon, Surrey.

1915 October Private, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Buried at St Pierre Cemetery, II. D. 1., Amiens, Somme, France.

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