The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Lance Corporal H J Hoskins

Lance Corporal Henry James HOSKINS, G/1671, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, death assumed on or after, 26th October 1917, age 24.

Born Bromley, Kent, son of Henry and Clara Hoskins, of "Fricourt," 5, Weston Road, Bromley, Kent.

9th February 1893, Bromley, Kent, baptism of Henry James Hoskins, son of Henry and Clara Hoskins.

1911 Census - 5, Weston Road, Bromley, Kent - Henry Hoskins, head, age 47, married, house painter, builder, worker, born Bromley, Kent; Clara Hoskins, wife, age 46, married 25 years, 5 children, 4 still alive, born Oxted, Surrey; Henry James Hoskins, son, age 18, single, despatching clerk gas fittings, worker, born Bromley, Kent; Marjorie Doris Hoskins, daughter, age 10, school, born Bromley, Kent.

Enlisted Bromley, Kent.

26th July 1915, posted BEF.

Commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 106 to 108, Belgium / Bromley War Memorial.

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