The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Corporal E H Hunt

Corporal Edgar Harry HUNT, 205329, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, death presumed on or after, 26th April 1918, age 27.

Son of Henry and Mary Hunt, of Dorchester, Dorset.

5th April 1891, Thornford, Dorset, baptism of Edgar Harry Hunt, son of Henry, (coachman), & Mary Jane Hunt.

1911 Census - Friar Mayne, Broadmayne, Dorchester, Dorset - Harry Hunt, head, age 45, married, coachman, domestic, born Sherborne, Dorset; Mary Jane Hunt, wife, age 45, married 20 years, 3 children, all still alive, born Yetminster, Dorset; Gladys Ruth Arnold Hunt, daughter, age 14, dressmaker, worker, born Thornford, Dorset; Albert Hunt, son, age 9, school, born Thornford, Dorset; Frederick Emmanuel Bridle, boarder, age 18, single, groom, domestic, born Moreton, Dorset.

1911 Census - Elmwood, Elms Lane, Sudbury, Harrow, Middlesex - Thomas Anthony Johnson, head, age 33, married, coachman, domestic, born Ponteland, Northumberland; Violet Frances Johnson, wife, age 29, married 4 years, 2 children, both still alive, born Leith, Scotland; Evelina Mary Johnson, daughter, age 3, born Whitechurch, Hampshire; Elizabeth Violet Johnson, daughter, age 1, born Elmwood, Harrow, Middlesex; Edgar Hunt, boarder, age 20, single, groom, born Thornford, Dorset

1st December 1915, Martlesham, married Gertrude Phyllis Daisy Gladwell, spinster, of Grove Farm, Stonham Aspal, Stowmarket, Suffolk.

Enlisted Maidstone, Kent. Resided 1 Dukes Avenue, Dorchester, Dorset.

Home 9th September 1914 to 11th April 1918; BEF 12th April 1918 to 26th April 1918.

9th September 1914, enlisted & posted 2/1 West Kent Yeomanry, Service No.1344; 25th November 1914, appointed Acting Lance Corporal; 1st March 1915, Acting Corporal Rough Riders; 17th May 1915, 2/1 West Kent Yeomanry, Acting Corporal; 17th May 1915, granted substantive rank of Corporal; 22nd December 1915, Acting Sergeant, Rough Riders; 12th April 1918, transferred to Royal West Kent Regiment, posted BEF & 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 25th April 1918, posted missing.

Separation Allowance of 12/6 a week & Allotment of Pay of 7/- a week, payable to wife.

Commemorated at Pozieres Memorial, Panel 58 and 59., France.

NOTE: Regimental History shows initial s as E.H.; Soldiers Died in the Great War shows first names as Edgar Henry; CWGC web site shows first names as Edgar Harry.

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