The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Lance Corporal E S Yeldham

Lance Corporal Edward Seagers YELDHAM, G/441, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 14th October 1915, age 29.

3rd October 1885, born Chingford, Essex, son of George and Annie Yeldham, of 28, The Ridgeway, Chingford, Essex.

1909 January, Epping, Essex, married Lucy Louise Godfrey.

1911 Census - 7 Stanley Road, Chingford, Essex - Edward Seagers Yeldham, head, age 25, married, plumbers labourer, worker, born Chingford, Essex; Lucy Louise Yeldham, wife, age 22, married 2 years, no children, born Islington, London.

Home 28th August 1914 to31st May 1915; BEF 1st June 1915 to 14th October 1915.

Enlisted Bromley, Kent, age 28 years & 10 months, height 6ft 1 inches, weight 151lbs, dark complexion, blue eyes, black hair, scar right knee. Resided 6 Fire Station, Bromley, Kent. Formerly fireman.

28th August 1914, enlisted; 1st June 1915, posted BEF.

Sole Legatee - Miss Alice Eliza Bacon, 95 College Road, Bromley, Kent.

1919 December, Wycombe Registration District, Alice E Bacon, married Sidney T Tilbury, Home Farm Cottage, Little Campden, Buckinghamshire.

3rd July 1919, Statement of Relatives - completed by Elizabeth Yeldham, mother - Widow, left him 7? years ago, address no known; Children, none; Father, George Yeldham, 28, The Ridgeway, Chingford; Mother, Ann Elizabeth Yeldham, 28, The Ridgeway, Chingford; Brothers - Sydney Yeldham, age 29, Gate House, Chingford Heath.

8th February 1939, Personal Call at The War Office from Mrs Lucy L Yeldham, 27 Bisterne Avenue Upper Walthamstow, E11. Formerly 441, 6th Royal West Kent Regiment, killed October 1916, death certificate required. Purpose, proof of death.

Commemorated at Loos Memorial, Panel 95 to 97, Pas de Calais, France. / Chingford Roll of Honour.

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