The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Corporal P W Painter

Corporal Percy William PAINTER, G/185, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, death presumed on or since, 8th October 1915, age 25.

Born Kings Lynn, Norwich, Norfolk, son of Robert & Sarah Ducker, (nee Painter).

1911 Census - Butlers Ins, Cobham, near Gravesend, Kent - Sarah Ann Ducker, head, age 48, married 20 years, 3 children, 2 still alive, born Bright Waltham, Berkshire; Percy James Ducker, son, age 19, single, plumber, HM Dockyard, Chatham, worker, born Thornham, Norfolk; Reginald Oswald Ducker, son, age 13, school, born Downham, Lancashire.

Enlisted Gravesend, Kent. Resided Rochester, Kent.

1st June 1915, posted BEF.

Commemorated at Loos Memorial, Panel 95 to 97, France.

see DUCKER, the true family name.

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