The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Corporal T W B Humphreys

Photograph by "John Chibnall"

Corporal Thomas William Brooks HUMPHREYS, G/17523, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 14211, Bedford Regiment), died of wounds, 26 General Hospital, Etaples, France, 17th May 1917, age 24.

14th May 1893, Wittering, Northamptonshire, baptism, son of *Eleanor Kate Humphreys. Unmarried?

*1895 married William Tilley, Stamford, Lincolnshire Registration District

1911 Census - Churchfield Lodge, Benefield, Oundle, Northamptonshire - William Tilley, head, age 43, married, farm labourer, worker, born Deeping St Nicholas, Lincolnshire; Eleanor Kate Tilley, wife, age 42, married 16 years, 4 children, all still alive, born Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire; Thomas William Brooks Humphreys, son, age 17, single, wheelwright apprentice, born Wittering, Northamptonshire; William Samuel Tilley, son, age 14, born Wittering, Northamptonshire; May Elizabeth Tilley, daughter, age 12, school, born Little Churchfield, Northamptonshire; Richard Victor Tilley, son, age 9, school, born Little Churchfield, Northamptonshire; Ernest Sharp, lodger, age 27, single, mole catcher, worker, born Sedgwick, Westmoreland.

1915, June Quarter, Watford Registration District married Mary Ann Mendham, of High Street, Thurlby, Lincolnshire.

Enlisted Watford, Hertfordshire.

1919, Stamford Registration District, Lincolnshire Registration District, Mary Ann Humphreys, married William Samuel Tilley.

Buried at Etaples Military Cemetery, XVIII. N. 18A., France.

Photograph by "Notes"

Commemorated Benefield War Memorial, St Mary's Churchyard, Causin Way, Lower Benefield, Peterborough.

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