The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private P Frowen

Photograph by "Len"

Private Percy FROWEN, G/13786, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 23rd August 1918, age 30.

Born Coleford, Gloucestershire.

12th April 1914, St Peter, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Percy Frowen, age 25, bachelor, labourer, 26, Cleveland Street, father, Thomas Frowen, deceased, collier, married Alice Clara Kate Morgan, age 24, spinster, 26, Cleveland Street, father Alfred Morgan, labourer.

Children - Alfred William Frowen, born 23rd June 1915, Monmouth?; Gwendolin Mildred Frowen, born 2nd July 1917, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

Home 18th October 1915 to 5th August 1918; BEF 6th August 1918 to 23rd August 1918.

Enlisted Sydney, Gloucestershire, age 27 years & 274 days, height 5ft 9 inches, weight 141lbs, this man has somewhat flat feet. Resided 21 Sparrow Hill, Coleford, Gloucestershire / Brockhollands, Lydney, Gloucestershire / 9 Townsend Street, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Formerly collier.

18th October 1915, enlisted & posted Depot, Gloucestershire Regiment, Service No.15939; 20th October 1915, posted 3rd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment; 29th March 1916, transferred to Royal West Kent Regiment, 1st Garrison Battalion; 28th November 1916, transferred to Class W, (reserves), Army Corps? of Miners, to be employed at Princess Royal Colliery Co. Ltd, Lydney, Gloucestershire; 10th April 1918, recalled to the Colours; 11th April 1918, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 6th August 1918, posted BEF; 7th August 1918, Folkestone, embarked; 8th August 1918, arrived "J" Depot & posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 12th August 1918, joined 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment In the Field.

11th July 1920, Statement of Relatives - Widow, Alice Clara Kate Frowen, 9 Townsend Street, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire; Children - Alfred William Frowen, 23rd June 1915, 9 Townsend Street, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire; Gwendolin Mildred Frowen, born 2nd July 1917, 9 Townsend Street, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire; Mother, Janey Mitchell, Bzyn? Cottage, Gilford Road, Tonypandy, South Wales; Sister - Mrs Annie Edey, age 36, 5 Gloster Road, Coleford, Gloucestershire.

16th March 1919, date when Separation Allowance of 29/- a week, payable to wife, will cease.

17th March 1919, pension of 25/5 a week awarded to widow & two children.

1921, December Quarter, Cheltenham Registration District, Widow remarried, Alice Clara Kate Frowen, married Arthur Roberts.

Buried at Becourt Military Cemetery, II. C. 10., Becordel-Becourt, Somme, France.

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