The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private A D Carpenter

Private Alfred David CARPENTER, G/15716, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 18th June 1917, age 36.

Born Dover, Kent.

9th January 1881, St Kames, Dover, Kent, baptism of Alfred David Carpenter, son of Richard Alfred Bray Carpenter & Maria Louisa Carpenter.

21st May 1904, Wootton, Dover, married Annie Bowles, spinster, 43, Clarendon Place, Dover, Kent.

Children - Alfred Richard Carpenter, born 6th February 1906, Dover; William Victor Carpenter, born 11th May? 1908, Dover; Benjamin D Carpenter, born 7th March?1913, Dover.

1911 Census - 43, Clarendon Place, Dover, Kent - Alfred Carpenter. head, age 30, married, house painter, Kent Coal Concessions. born Dover, Kent; Ann Carpenter, wife, age 28, married 6 years, 2 children, both still alive, born Diver, Kent.

1911 Census - Borough Fever Hospital, Infectious Disease Hospital, Noah's Ark Road, Dover, Kent - Alfred Carpenter, age 5, born Dover, Kent; William Victor Carpenter, age 3, born Dover, Kent.

Enlisted Dover, Kent, age 35 years & 86 days, height 5ft 4 inches, weight 130lbs, defective teeth, to see ophthalmic surgeon, (myopic astigmatism, spectacles to be provided). Resided 43, Clarendon Place, Dover, Kent. Formerly glazier & painter.

9th December 1915, enlisted; 10th December 1915, to Army Reserve; 3rd June 1916, mobilized; 3rd June 1916, posted 12th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 17th December 1916, posted BEF; 18th December 1916, embarked / disembarked; 18th December 1916, posted 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

Separation Allowance 24/6 a week & Allotment of Pay 3/6 a week.

14th January 1918, pension of 26/3 a week awarded to widow & three children.

Commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Panel 45 & 47, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Link to Dover War Memorial Project

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