The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Corporal F Pelling

St Peters Churchyard, Hamsey, Lewes, Sussex.

Photograph by "Wertypop"

Corporal Francis PELLING, G/23912, (TF/2081), 2nd Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, 28th October 1918, age 25.

5th July 1893, born Warnham, Horsham, Sussex, son of William and Frances Pelling, Offham, Lewes, Sussex.

1911 Census - 16 Offham, Lewes, Sussex - William Pelling, head, age 48, widower, Estate Carpenter, worker, born Brighton, Sussex; Margaret Pelling, daughter, age 20, single, born Chailey, Sussex; William Pelling, son, age 19, single, Estate Carpenter, worker, born Warnham, Sussex; Francis Pelling, son, age 17, single, domestic servant & gardener, born Warnham, Sussex; Harold Pelling, son, age 12, school, born Hamsey, Sussex.

Enlisted Tonbridge, Kent. Resided Lewes, Sussex.

26th August 1915, posted Asiatic Theatre of War.

Buried at Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, XVIII. F. 1/29., Iraq. Commemorated Hamsey, Sussex.

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