The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private W Norman

Private William NORMAN, G/5942, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 18th June 1917, age 19.

Born Tunbridge Wells, Kent, son of Frederick A. and Martha Cordelia Norman, of 31, North Street, St. Peter's, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

1911 Census - 28 Park Street, Tunbridge Wells, Kent - Frederick Norman, head, age 36, married, bricklayers labourer, worker, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Martha Norman, wife, age 40, married 16 years, 5 children, all still alive, born St Ives, Cornwall; Frederick Norman, son, age 15, single, dentists pageboy, worker, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Lilian Norman, daughter, age 14, domestic servant, worker, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent; William Norman, son, age 13, school boy, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Albert Norman, son, age 9, school boy, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Percival Norman, son, age 7, school boy, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

Enlisted Tonbridge, Kent.

1st October 1915, posted BEF.

Commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Panel 45 and 47, Belgium & Tunbridge Wells War Memorial.

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