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Corporal W Morphett


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Corporal Walter MORPHETT, G/5006, 2nd  Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died, of malaria at Baghdad, with the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, 22nd October 1918.

9th November 1895, born Pembury, Kent, eldest son of Walter Morphett, Stone Court Farm, Pembury, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

Educated County Council School, Pembury, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.


1911 Census - Church Road, Lower Green, Pembury, Kent - Walter Morphett, head, age 42, married, stockman, farm, worker, born Staplehurst, Kent; Edith Morphett, wife, age 41, married 18 years, 9 children, 7 still alive, born P Wood, Kent; *Hetty Morphett, daughter, age 16; Walter Morphett, son, age 15, stockboy, farm, worker, born Brenchley, Kent; Bessie Morphett, daughter, age 13, school, born Brenchley, Kent; William Morphett, son, age 11, school, born Pembury, Kent; Ernest Morphett, son, age 8, born Pembury, Kent; Bert Morphett, son, age 6, born Pembury, Kent; #Edith Morphett, daughter, age 4; Thomas Morphett, son, age 2, born Pembury, Kent; John Morphett, son, age 1, born Pembury, Kent.

* died 1895 June, age 1, Tunbridge Registration District. # died 1907 December, age 0, Tunbridge Registration District.


Enlisted 16th December 1914, Tonbridge, Kent. 

21st April 1915, posted BEF; wounded at Hill 60 and invalided home; 16th December 1915, proceeded to Mesopotamia.

Unmarried.

Buried at Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, XIV. K. 12., Iraq. Commemorated on Pembury War Memorial.


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