The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private A B Andrews


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Private Arthur Bertram ANDREWS, 201187,  6th Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds,  Flanders, France,  26th August 1918, age 22.

Born Shipbourne, Kent, Son of Stephen and Alice Mary Andrews, of 17, Meadow Road, Meadow Lawn, Tonbridge, Kent. Resided Tonbridge, Kent.


1911 Census - 51 Pembury Road, Tonbridge, Kent - Stephen Andrews, head, age 42, married, travelling cellarman, Railway Refreshment Contractor, born Tonbridge, Kent; Alice Mary Andrews, wife, age 41, married 23 years, 6 children, 5 still alive, born Tonbridge, Kent; Edith Andrews, daughter, age 18, single, born Shipbourne, Kent; Prudence Andrews, daughter, age 17, single, born Shipbourne, Kent; Arthur Andrews, son, age 15, single, grocers errand boy, born Shipbourne, Kent; Aubrey Andrews, son, age 10, school, born Tonbridge, Kent; Alice Pearce, foster child, age 4, born Tonbridge, Kent.


Enlisted  Tonbridge, Kent

Buried at Daours Communal Cemetery Extension, VIII.A.33., Somme, France.


Commemorated on Tonbridge War Memorial - Tonbridge War Memorial - The original World War I memorial at the Junction of Pembury Road and Quarry Hill. The names were later re-inscribed in the new Memorial Garden in Bradford Street. 

From Tonbridge History - Arthur Bertram Andrews was born in 1896 at Shipbourne, the third of six children born to Stephen and Alice Andrews. He enlisted in the Royal West Kent Regiment in June 1915 and served with the 6th Battalion as Private 201187. He was wounded in late August 1918 and although at first it was thought he would survive he died of his wounds on the 26th August in a military hospital in France; he was aged 22 years. He is buried at Daours Communal Cemetery Extension. The news was delivered to his parents who at that time resided at 17 Meadow Road.


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