The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Corporal E A Bunting

Photograph by “Simon Tiron”

Corporal Ernest Albert BUNTING, G/832, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, Flanders France, 15th October 1917.

Born Bromley, Kent, son of Frederick & Clara Bunting, 8 Park Road, Bromley, Kent.

1911 Census - 8 Palace Road, Bromley, Kent - Fred Bunting, head, age 52, married, Police pensioner, born Finchingfield, Essex; Clara Annie Bunting, wife, age 49, married 26 years, 9 children, 8 still alive, born Cirencester, Gloucestershire; Clara Emma Bunting, daughter, age 25, single, book keeper, dairymans shop, born Penge, London; Florence Maud Bunting, daughter, age 24, single, domestic, born Brockley, London; Frederick William Bunting, son, age 21, single, clerk, Bromley Borough, born Penge, London; Edith Beatrice Bunting, daughter, age 19, single, clerk, laundry, born Sydenham, London; Mable Bunting, daughter, age 17, single, shop assistant, confectioners, born Sydenham, London; Bertie Bunting, son, age 14, fitters mate, electric light works, born Bromley, Kent; Albert Ernest Bunting, son, age 12, school, born Bromley, Kent; Horace James Bunting, son, age 9, school, born Bromley, Kent.

Enlisted Bromley, Kent, age 19 years & 3 months, height 5ft 4½ inches, weight 122lbs, fresh complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, left forearm, tattoo. Formerly warehouseman.

Home 2nd September 1914 to 31st May 1915; BEF 1st June 1915 to 11th March 1916; Home 12th March 1916 to 13th June 1917; BEF 14th June 1917 to 15th October 1917.

2nd September 1914, enlisted; 4th September 1914, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 4th September 1914, posted 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 1st June 1915, appointed unpaid Lance Corporal; 9th October 1915, appointed paid Acting Lance Corporal; 12th March 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 13th March 1916 to 15th July 1916, London General Hospital Wandsworth, gun shot wounds to left face; 24th July 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 8th September 1916, appointed paid Lance Corporal; 1st May 1917, appointed Acting Corporal; 12th June 1917, promoted Corporal; 14th June 1917, posted BEF; 18th July 1917, joined Battalion, "D" Company In the Field; 8th August 1917, attached ???? Town Company; 13th September 1917, rejoined Battalion; 14th October 1917, wounded in action; 15th October 1917, 19 Casualty Clearing Station, died of wounds, gun shot wound to right buttock and gassed, shell.

8th August 1919, Statement of Relatives - Father, Fred Bunting, 8 Park Road, Bromley, Kent; Mother, Clara Bunting, 8 Park Road, Bromley, Kent; NOTE - none of the brothers & sisters shown in the 1911 Census were listed.

Buried at Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun, V.C.14., Pas de Calais, France. Commemorated on Bromley War Memorial.

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