The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Sergeant J Fitzgerald

Photograph by "Carolina Dutchman"

Serjeant James FITZGERALD, L/7628, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 19th September 1914.

Born Dover, Kent, son of Mrs. E. A. Fitz Gerald, of 38, Chapel Place Dover, Kent.

Enlisted Dover, Kent.

1911 Census - Quebec Barracks, Bordon, Hampshire - James Maurice Fitzgerald, Lance Sergeant age 23, single, 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, soldier, born Dover, Kent.

Buried at Vauxbuin French National Cemetery, III. C. 8., Aisne, France.

Exert from Aisne 1914 - The Dawn of Trench Warfare - "At Missy, D Company, 1st Royal West Kent's, came under heavy fire and a single shell killed three valued NCO's. Sergeant Fitzgerald, Sergeant Zebulum Barden and Lance Sergeant W. Warnett were vapourised."

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