The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Regimental Sergeant Major A Lee


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Regimental Serjeant Major Alfred LEE, 5247, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (transferred to 398 Employment Company, Labour Corps, Service No.600028), died, Oldbury, Birmingham, 6th  November 1917, age 47.

Born in Berkshire, son of George and Elizabeth Lee.

30th January 1892, St John, Portland, Dorset - Alfred Lee, age 22, bachelor, Sergeant Royal West Kent Regiment, Sandgate, Kent, father George Lee, labourer, married Annie Wills, age 22, spinster, Portland, St John, father Robert Wills, Licensed Victualler.


1901 Census - Shorncliffe Camp, Cheriton & Sandgate, Kent - Lee Alfred, head, married, age 31, Soldier, born England; Annie Lee, wife, age 31, married, born England; Francis Emily Winifred Lee, daughter, age 8, born England; Alfred John Lee, son, age 6, born England; Elizabeth Gladys Lee, daughter, age 3, born Ireland.


1911 Census - 92 Blackheath Hill, Greenwich, SE - Alfred Lee, head, age 41, married, Army Pensioner Clerk, Advertising Contractor, worker, born Netley, Hampshire; Anna Lee, age wife, 41, married 19 years, 5 children, 4 still alive, born Portland, Dorset; Francis Emily Winifred Lee, daughter, age 18, single, born Shornecliffe, Kent; Alfred John Lee, son, age 16, single, grocer assistant, shop, worker, born Portland, Dorset; Elizabeth Gladys Lee, daughter, age 13, school, born Dublin, Ireland; *Ivy Muriel Lee, daughter, age 8, born Shornecliffe, Kent.  *born 1st March 1903


10th August 1915, posted BEF.

Buried at Oldbury Cemetery, C. "C." 2073., Warley, United Kingdom.

NOTE: not included in Regimental History Roll but shown on CWGC web site.


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