The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private R G Jarrett


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R G Jarrett, War Memorial, Central Avenue, Sittingbourne. Also shows brother Herbert Horace Jarrett.

Photographs by "David Lane"

Photograph by "Claude Laignel" 


Private Rupert George JARRETT, G/28589, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders, France, 9th August 1918, age 24.

1894, born Milton, Sittingbourne, Kent, son of George & Eliza Jarrett.


1911 Census - 21 Milton Road, Cheapside, Sittingbourne, Kent - George Jarrett, head, age 53, married, labourer, bricklayer, worker, born Milton, Kent; Eliza Jarrett, wife, age 51, married 24 years, 6 children, 2 still alive, born Isle of Grain, Kent; *Herbert Horace Jarrett, son, age 22, single, shop assistant, gents outfitting, worker London, W, born Milton, Kent; Rupert George Jarrett, son, age 17, single, apprentice, paper making, worker, born  Sittingbourne, Kent; William Martin, boarder, age 21, single, carpenter, ship yard, worker, born Tovil, Maidstone, Kent; Clara Eliza Bushell, boarder, age 20, single, shop assistant, drapery, worker, born Sandwich, Kent.


1916 July, Faversham, Kent, married Edith May Spencer.

Child - Walter G Jarrett, born 27th September 1917, Faversham, Kent.

Enlisted Canterbury, Kent.


Buried at  Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery Extension, B.15., Somme, France.

   

Photographs by "David Lane"


Commemorated Sittingbourne War Memorial.

NOTE Regimental History & Soldiers Died in the Great War show rank as Private, CWGC website shows it as Lance Corporal.



       

Inscription - "TO LIVE IN THE HEARTS THEY LEAVE BEHIND IS NOT TO DIE DAD AND MUM

Photograph by "LESUEUR Dominique"

*Brother, Second Lieutenant Herbert (Bert) Horace Jarrett, 5th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment, (formerly Lance Corporal Royal Munster Fusiliers, Service Mo.5764),  died 6th December 1917, age 29.

Son of George & Eliza Jarrett, 21 Cheapside, Milton Road,  Sittingbourne, Kent

31st July 1915, posted BEF.

Buried St Sever Cemetery, Rouen,  Officers. B.6.12.

Commemorated Sittingbourne War Memorial.


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