The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private T W Smith

Inscription - "REST IN PEACE"

Photograph by "Claude Laignel"

Photograph "YJ"

Private Thomas William SMITH, G/12472, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 26th October 1916, age 29.

Born Goudhurst, Kent, son of Thomas and Mary Ann Smith, Mission House, Goathurst Common, Ide Hill, Sevenoaks, Kent.

Enlisted Sevenoaks, Kent, age 28 years & 2 months, height 5ft 6 inches, weight 150lbs, brown birth mark left side of neck & left side abdomen, talipes vulgas of both feet but they do not give him any trouble, flat footed. Resided Everlands, Sevenoaks, Kent. Formerly footman.

Home 26th November 1915 to 15th June 1916; BEF 16th June 1916 to 26th October 1916.

26th November 1915, enlisted; 26th November 1915, to Army Reserve; 2nd March 1916, mobilized; 3rd March 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 16th June 1916, posted BEF & 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 2nd September 1916, wounded, gun shot wound face.

29th August 1919, Statement of Relatives - Father Thomas Smith, Mission House, Goathurst Common, Sevenoaks, Kent; Mother, Mary Ann Smith, Mission House, Goathurst Common, Sevenoaks, Kent; Brothers - Rifleman Valentine Smith, age 24, 65172 "C" Company, 12th Platoon, 20th Battalion, Kings Royal Rifles, Army of the Rhine; Lance Corporal Henry Smith, age 22, 102492, 2nd Battalion Buffs, Connaught Barracks, Dover; Sisters - Mary Louise Ralph, age 33, 42 Wherewell? near Andover, Hampshire; Annie Elkin, age 29, Smallrise? Larndon?, Stafford; Alice Kent, age 29, 4 Ponds Cottages, High Street, Sevenoaks; Nellie Smith, age 17, Everlands, Sevenoaks; Bessie Smith, age 13, Mission House, Goathurst Common, Sevenoaks.

Buried at Maroc British Cemetery, I. L. 2., Grenay, France, and Commemorated at St Marys Church, Ide Hill, Kent.

This page was last updated on 26-Feb-2023.