The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Second Lieutenant H S Peglar

Photograph by "Len"

Second Lieutenant Harry Sidney PEGLAR, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, 4th November 1918.

Son of Harry & Martha Beatrice Peglar.

1911 Census - 82 Chapel Street, Islington, Clerkenwell, London N - Harry Peglar, head, age 44, married, mail driver, contractors, worker, born Marylebone; Martha Peglar, wife, age 44, married 21 years, 2 children, both still alive, born Islington; Annie Peglar, daughter, age 20, single, milliner, worker, at home, born Marylebone; Harry Peglar, son, age 15, single, clerk, wholesale furnishers, worker, born Walham Green.

Private 3rd London Regiment, Service No.2491; 26th June 1917, Commissioned Essex Regiment / Royal West Kent Regiment.

19th April 1915, posted to Egypt Theatre of War.

18th June 1919, Probate - Harry Sidney Peglar, of 1 Thornhill Square, Barnsbury, Middlesex died 4th November 1918 in France. Administration (with Will) London 18th June to Martha Beatrice Peglar (wife of Harry Peglar). Effects £145 2s 1d.

Buried at Honnechy British Cemetery, II. B. 37., France.

London Gazette 1st November 1917.

War Office, 1st November, 1917, REGULAR FORCES.

The under mentioned temp. 2nd Lieutenants from attached unless otherwise stated, are transferred to Service Battalions, with seniority from 27 June 1917:

Royal West Kent Regiment. - H. S. Peglar (from Essex Regiment).

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