The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Corporal E A Cannings

Corporal Ernest Arthur CANNINGS, G/8356, 11th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 15th September 1916.

Born Plumstead, SE.

31st July 1906, St Augustine, South Bermondsey, Ernest Arthur Cannings, age 27, bachelor, clerk, 81 Camilla Road, father, Reuben Cannings, London City Missionary married Ethel Mary Hunt, age 29, spinster, 36 Panfill Road, father, Edward Hunt, waredhouseman.

Child - Harold Ernest Canning, baptised 14th August 1907, St Augustine, South Bermondsey.

1911 Census - 26 Hurstborne Road, Forest Hill, SE - Ernest Arthur Cannings, head, age 32, married, mercantile clerk, corset manufacturer, born Plumstead, Kent; Ethel Mary Cannings, wife, age 33, married 4 years, 2 children, both still alive, born Canterbury, Kent; Harold Ernest Cannings, son, age 3, born New Cross, London; Doris Ethel Cannings, daughter, age 1 month. born Forest Hill, London; Harriett Cannings, mother, age 61, widow, born Winterslow, Wiltshire; Alberta Baugh Cannings, sister, age 33, single, assistant milliner, drapers, born Plumstead, Kent.

Enlisted Lewisham, SE. Resided Forest Hill, SE.

2nd March 1917, Probate - Cannings Ernest Arthur of 26 Hurstborne Road, Forest Hill, Kent, Sergeant 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, died 15th September 1916, in France on Active Service. Administration London 2nd March to Ethel Mary Cannings widow. Effects £75.

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 11C, Somme, France.

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