The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Lieutenant W H W Haslam

Lieutenant Wilfred Henry Westcott HASLAM, 4th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, 7th February 1916, age 29.

9th December 1886, son of Rev. Frederick Haslam (Vicar of Hernhill, Faversham) & Ethel Louisa Haslam, of Dagenham House, Newton Abbott, South Devon.

10th January 1887, Rickmansworth, Hertfordfordshire, baptism of Wilfred Henry Westcott Haslam, son of Frederick & Ethel Louisa Haslam.

1911 Census - Harble Down, Orpington, Kent - Ethel Louisa Haslam, head, age 56, widow, married 23 years, 2 children, both still alive, born Woolwich, Kent; Wilfred Henry Westcott Haslam, son, age 24, single, insurance clerk, worker, born Rickmansworth, Hertfordfordshire; Dorothy Haslam, daughter, age 25, born Charlton, Kent; Daisy Lilian Drurry, servant, age 16, single, housemaid domestic, born Hernhill, Faversham; Edith Hannah Prior, servant, age 25, single, cook, born Bromley, Kent.

17th August 1915, posted Mesopotamia Theatre of War.

5th September 1917, Probate - Wilfred Henry Westcott Haslam, of Harbledown, Orpington, Kent. Second Lieutenant, Royal West Kent Regiment, died 7th February 1916, at Mesopotamia. Administration London 5th September to Ethel Louisa Haslam, widow. Effects £323 9s 1d.

Buried at Basra War Cemetery, IV. R. 20., Iraq.

Commemorated on the War Memorial at St Michaels Church, Hernhill & on an inscription on his father's grave in the Churchyard there / Herne Hill (Kent) Roll of Honour/ Bromley War Memorial.

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