The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

L/Cpl A Payne

Lance Corporal Albert PAYNE, G/4700, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, death assumed on or since, 22nd July 1916, age 39.

1878 June Quarter, born Edenbridge, Kent, son of Ellen Payne, of 3, Paradise Row, Edenbridge, Kent.

1881 Census - 3, Paradise Row, Edenbridge, Kent - Charles Payne, head, age 62, married, labourer, born Edenbridge, Kent; Eliza Payne, wife, age 60, married, born Edenbridge, Kent; Ellen Payne, daughter, age 23, unmarried, needlewoman/charwoman, born Edenbridge, Kent; George Payne, son, age 35, unmarried, labourer, born Edenbridge, Kent; Frances Payne, grandaughter, age 6, scholar, born Edenbridge, Kent; Albert Payne, grandson, age 2, born Edenbridge, Kent.

1886 March Quarter, Sevenoaks Registration District, Ellen Payne married James Martin.

1891 Census - 3, Paradise Row, Edenbridge, Kent - Charles Payne, head, age 62, widower, labourer, born Edenbridge, Kent; James Martin, son in law, age 46, married, general labourer, born Tilehurst, Sussex; Ellen Martin, daughter, age 34, married, born Edenbridge, Kent; Albert Payne, grandson, age 13, born Edenbridge, Kent; *Harriett Martin, grandaughter, age 4, born Edenbridge, Kent; Eliza Martin, grandaughter, age 2, born Edenbridge, Kent; James Martin, grandson, age 7 months, born Edenbridge, Kent.

1901 Census - Mermaid Hitel, Yeovil, Somerset - Albert Payne, servant, single, age 23, "Boots domestic", born Edenbridge, Kent.

1907 December Quarter, Sevenoaks Registration District, *Harriett Martin married George Henry Ellis

1911 Census - 10, Paradise Row, Edenbridge, Kent - George Henry Ellis, head, age 27, married, general labourer, born Edenbridge, Kent; *Harriett Ellen Ellis, wife, age 24, married 3 years, 2 children, both still alive, born Edenbridge, Kent; Bertha May Ellis, daughter, age 3, born Edenbridge, Kent; Minnie Frances Ellis, daughter, age 1, born Edenbridge, Kent; Albert Payne, brother, age 32, single, Insurance Agent, worker, born Edenbridge, Kent.

Enlisted Tonbridge, Kent.

23rd April 1915, posted BEF.

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 11C, France / Edenbridge War Memorial

This page was last updated on 21-Mar-2021.