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The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Second Lieutenant A B Cadell

Second Lieutenant Assheton Biddulph CADELL, attached 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (Devonshire Regiment), died of wounds, 19th February 1916, age 21.

Born 18th March 1894, Tiverton, Devon, only child of Dr. Nevil Pottow and Gertrude Louisa Cadell, (daughter of the late Francis Wellesley Marsh Biddulph of Rathrobin, Kings County J.P.), of "Foxlease," Camberley, Surrey.

Educate Woodcote, Oxfordshire (Rev J H Wilkinson) & Lancing College.

1911 Census - Lancing College, Lancing, Sussex - Assheton Biddulph Cadell, age 17, pupil.

17th March 1915, obtained a Commission in the Devonshire Regiment; 6th October 1915, served with BEF in FRance & Flanders where he was attached to the 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 19th February 1916, wounded at Chiteau Belge, near Ypres & died in the ambulance on his way to hospital three hours after having been wounded.

12th May 1916 Probate - CADELL Assheton Biddulph of "Foxlease," Camberley, Surrey, 2nd Lieutenant Royal West Kent Regiment, (attached) died 19th February 1916, near Ypres, Belgium. Administration London 12th May to Nevil Pottow Cadell, medical practitioner. Effects £105.

Buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, II. A. 36., Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

NOTE: CWGC website shows date of death as 19th February 1916 & Officers Died in the Great War show it as 19th December 1916.

London Gazette 25th November 1915.

The under mentioned temporary Second Lieutenants are transferred from (Reserve) Battalions, with seniority from the dates shown against their names.

The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) Assheton B. Cadell (from The Devonshire Regiment). 17th March, 1915.

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