The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private L Fostall

Private Leslie FOSTALL, 240660, 1st/5th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (Territorial Force TF/2414), died, Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, 31st May 1916, age 24.

Son of Walter and Clara Fostall, of 80, Newbury Road, Bromley, Kent.

1911 Census - 17 East Street, Horsham Sussex - Ernest Turner, head, age 33, married, house furnisher & decorator, employer, born Horsham, Sussex; Elizabeth Turner, wife, age 35, married 12 years, 3 children, all still alive, born Horsham, Sussex; Charlotte Grace Turner, daughter, age 11, school, born Horsham, Sussex; Florence Hilda Turner, daughter, age 9, school, born Horsham, Sussex; Ethel Irene Turner, daughter, age 4, school, born Horsham, Sussex; Leslie Fostall, boarder, age 19, single, ironmongers clerk, born Littlebourne, Kent.

1911 Census - 80, Newbury Road, Bromley, Kent. - Walter Fostall, head, age 51, married, joiner, building, worker, born Littlebourne, Kent; Clara Fostall, wife, age 50, married 25 years, 4 children, all still alive, born Marylebone, London; Gladys Fostall, daughter, age 16, single, dressmakers apprentice, born Bromley, Kent.

Enlisted Bromley, Kent. Resided Bromley, Kent.

26th August 1915, posted Asiatic Theatre of War.

Commemorated at Basra Memorial, Panel 29., Iraq. Commemorated on Bromley War Memorial.

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