The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Lance Sergeant E Hunt

Photograph by "Phillippe DEGROOTE"

Lance Serjeant Edward HUNT, L/7442, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 5th July 1917, age 30.

Born Dartford, Kent, son of Edward and Clara Hunt, of 3 Fulcher's Square / Cottages, High Street, St. Mary Cray, Kent.

1911 Census - 2 Chapel Place, St Mary Cray, Kent - Helen Pistell, head, age 24, married, occasional work in fields, farmer, worker, born Dartford, Kent; Edward Hunt, brother, age 25, single, bricklayers labourer, (Army Reservist, Private, 7 years), worker, born Dartford, Kent; Harry Pistell, son, age 3½, born St Pauls Cray, Kent; William Pistell, son, age 1½, born St Pauls Cray, Kent.

Enlisted Maidstone, Kent. Resided Foots Cray, Kent.

21st September 1914, posted BEF.13th August 1919, Statement of Relatives, completed by mother, Clara Hunt, 3, Fulchers Cottages, St. Mary Cray, Kent. - Father, Edward Hunt, 3, Fulchers Square, St. Mary Cray; Mother, Clara Hunt, 3, Fulchers Square, St. Mary Cray; Brothers - Harry Hunt, age 18, 3, Fulchers Square, St. Mary Cray; Sisters - Mrs Ellen Pistol, age 30, Victoria, Canada, British Columbia; Mrs Annie Gold?, age 28, 245 ???????? Road, Upper Clapton, London, NE; Mrs Emily Rose?, age 24, Green Higth, near Dartford; Florence Hunt, age 21, 3, Fulchers Square, St. Mary Cray; Alice Hunt, age 16, 3, Fulchers Square, St. Mary Cray; Celia Hunt, age 12, 3, Fulchers Square, St. Mary Cray; Katheleen Hunt, age 10, 3, Fulchers Square, St. Mary Cray.

His brother Ernest also fell. see Private E Hunt.

Buried at Villers Station Cemetery, XI. D. 1., Villers-au-Bois, France.

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