The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Second Lieutenant C E M Dillon


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Second Lieutenant Charles Edward Maxwell DILLON, 10th  Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent  Regiment, killed in action, 31st July 1917, age 33.

Born in Clapham, London.

Son of Edward. Maxwell Dillon, LL.D. Barrister & Agnes Dillon.


1911 Census - Oaknoll, 19 Central Hill, Upper Norwood, SE. - Agnes Dillon, head, age 49, widow, private means, born Ivinghoe, Buckinghamshire; Charles Edward Maxwell Dillon, son, age 24, single, barrister, born Clapham, London; Louisa Boone, servant, age 67, widow, housekeeper domestic, born Winston, Suffolk; Alice Mary Brown, servant, age 34, single, housemaid domestic, born Burham, Kent; Hilda Ethel Fitch, servant, age 26, single, cook domestic, born Ramsgate, Kent.


29th June 1916, posted BEF.

1st October 1917, Probate - Dillon Charles Edward Maxwell, of Oaknoll, Central Hill, Upper Norwood, Surrey, Second Lieutenant 10th Royal West Kent  Regiment, died 31st July 1917 in Belgium. Probate London 1st October to Henry Wentworth Dillon Esquire and Wilfred Godden Esquire. Effects £19826 7s 1 d. Resworn £19260 14s 5d.

Buried at Aeroplane Cemetery, VII. A. 48., Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.


London Gazette 26th March 1917.

War Office, 26th March 1917 - REGULAR FORCES.

The under mentioned W.Os., N.C.Os. and men to be temporary 2nd Lieutenants, with effect from dates shown : 

Royal West Kent Regiment. -  Pte. C. E. M. Dillon, from H.A.C., Territorial Force - 20th February 1917.


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