The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private M C Frost

Private Montague Clarence FROST, G/1360, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, death presumed on or since, 26th September 1915, age 18.

Born Thornton Heath, Croydon, Surrey, son of Henry Joseph and Eleanor Frost, of "Ringwood", Station Road, Hayes, Kent.

1895 September Quarter, Croydon Registration District, Henry Joseph Frost married Eleanor Locke.

1911 Census - 257 Ravenscroft Road, Beckenham, Kent - Henry Joseph Frost, head, age 36, married, clerk, Railway Company, born Thornton Heath, Surrey; *Sarah Jane Frost, wife, age 38, married 15 years, 7 children, all still alive, born Bromley, Kent; Montague Clarence Frost, son, age 14, disemployed at present, born Thornton Heath, Surrey; Gladys Beatrice Frost, daughter, age 11, school, born Thornton Heath, Surrey; Eric Ernest Frost, son, age 9, school, born Thornton Heath, Surrey; Cecil Joseph Frost, son, age 7, school, born Thornton Heath, Surrey; Doris Edna Frost, daughter, age 4, born Beckenham, Kent; Constance Irene Frost, daughter, age 2, born Beckenham, Kent; Vera Florence Frost, daughter, age 1, born Beckenham, Kent.

1901 Census - 85 Beulah Road, Thornton, Heath - Henry Joseph Frost, head, age 26, married, railway accountants clerk, Railway Company, born Croydon, Surrey; *Eleanor Frost, wife, age 28, married, born Bromley, Kent; Montague Clarence Frost, son, age 4, born Croydon, Surrey; Gladys Beatrice Frost, daughter, age 11, born Croydon, Surrey; Edward Tuck, boarder, age 27, single, painter & decorator, born Clapham, Surrey.

* not sure how Eleanor in the 1901 Census became Sarah Jane in the 1911 Census.

Enlisted Bromley, Kent. Resided West Wickham, Kent.

30th August 1915, posted BEF.

Commemorated at Loos Memorial, Panel 95 to 97, Pas de Calais, France.

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