The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private L A Bowles

Private Lawrence Alfred BOWLES, G/11986, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders, France, death presumed on or after, 13th July 1916.

Born Sevenoaks, Kent, son of Mrs. Alice Bowles, of 11 Bethel Road, St Johns, Sevenoaks, Kent / 45, Cobden Road, Sevenoaks, Kent.

1911 Census - 11 Bethel Road, St Johns, Sevenoaks, Kent - Alice Bowlers, head, age 56, widow, married 26 years, 5 children, all still alive, born Fressingfield, Suffolk; Clifford Bowles, son, age 26, single, jobbing gardener, born St Johns, Sevenoaks, Kent; Reginald Bowles, son, age 24, single, farm labourer, born Platt, Kent; Leonard Bowles, son, age 22, domestic gardener, born St Johns, Sevenoaks, Kent; Martha Bowles, daughter, age 19, single, born Kemsing, Sevenoaks; Lawrence Bowles, son, age 17, single, house boy domestic, born Sevenoaks, Kent.

Enlisted Sevenoaks, Kent, age 21, height 5ft 9½ inches, weight 117lbs. Formerly gardener.

Home 25th November 1915 to 18th May 1916; BEF 19th May 1916 to 13th July 1916.

25th November 1915, enlisted; 25th November 1915, to Army Reserve; 28th January 1916, mobilized; 4th February 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 19th May 1916, posted BEF & 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 2nd June 1916, 18 Infantry Base Depot, proceeded to Front to join Battalion; 13th July 1916, posted missing.

1st September 1919, Statement of Relatives - Mother, Alice Bowles, 45, Cobden Road, Sevenoaks, Kent; Brothers - Clifford Bowles, age 34, Budgens Yard, Sevenoaks; Reginald Bowles, age 32, 45, Cobden Road, Sevenoaks, Kent; Two half brothers of a previous marriage, but no correspondence has been kept up; Sister, Martha Cookey, age 27, 86 Woodside Road, Tonbridge; Four half sisters from a previous marriage but no correspondence has been kept up & knowledge of former family has died out.

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 11C, Somme, France / Sevenoaks War Memorial.

see also Private Leonard Bowles.

London Gazette 30th April 1918.

SOLDIERS' BALANCES UNDISPOSED OF.

In pursuance of "The Regimental Debts Act, 1893," notice is hereby given that there is available for distribution amongst the Next of Kin or others entitled the sum of money set opposite to the name of each of the deceased Soldiers named in the lists which are published with this notice in the London Gazette and the "Army List," and are also to be seen at the Regimental Depots throughout the United Kingdom.

Applications from persons supposing themselves entitled as Next of Kin should be addressed by letter to "The Secretary, War Office, Park Buildings, St. James's Park, London, S.W.," and marked outside "Effects."

R. H. BRADE. War Office, April 30, 1918.

List CCCCCXII of the Names of deceased Soldiers whose Personal Estate is held for distribution amongst the Next of Kin or others entitled. - Effects 1917-18.

Bowles, L. A, Private, Royal West Kent Regiment, £1 9s 2d

London Gazette 29th April 1919.

FIRST RE-PUBLICATION of List CCCCCXII of the Names of deceased Soldiers whose Personal Estate is held for distribution amongst the Next of Kin or others entitled. - Effects 1917-18.

Bowles, L. A, Private, Royal West Kent Regiment, £1 9s 2d

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