The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Corporal G F Spurrell

Inscription -

"IN LOVING MEMORY OF

A DUTIFUL SON

AND LOYAL CITIZEN"

Photograph by “Claude Laignel”

Corporal George Frederick SPURRELL, G/7717, "A" Company, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 1076, West Kent Yeomanry), killed in action, Flanders France, 12th April 1917, age 26.

Born Tunbridge Wells, Kent, son of George and Margaret Spurrell, Lower Lodge, Nevill Park, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

1911 Census - Lower Lodge, (Keepers), Nevill Park, Tunbridge Wells, Kent - George Spurrell, head, age 51, married, Park Keepere, Private Park, worker, born Illington, Norfolk; Margaret Spurrell, wife, age 51, married 22 years, 2 children, both still alive, born Withyham, Sussex; George Frederick Spurrell, son, age 20, single, chauffeur (learner), motor trade, worker, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Albert Thomas Spurrell, son, age 15, single, scholar, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

Enlisted Maidstone, Kent.

Buried at Maroc British Cemetery, I. Q. 18., Grenay, France. Commemorated Tunbridge Wells War Memorial.

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