The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private A E F Brampton

Private Albert Edward Frances BRAMPTON, G/18668, 10th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 31st July 1917.

Born Hanwell, Middlesex, son of Albert & Emily Brampton.

30th July 1910, St John Church, Northfields, Ealing, Albert Edward Frances Brampton, age 25, bachelor, plasterer, 30 Brummer Road, son of Albert Brampton, plasterer, married Caroline Godfrey, age 24, spinster,2 Bloomfield Cottages, daughter of William Henry Godfrey, deceased, gardener..

Children - Caroline Amelia Brampton, born 6th July 1911, 81 Cumberland Road, Hanwell Middlesex; Irene Jesse May Brampton, born 27th May 1915, 81 Cumberland Road, Hanwell, Middlesex.

1911 Census - 81 Cumberland Road, Hanwell - Albert Brampton, head, age 26, married, plasterer, born Ealing, Middlesex; Carrie Brampton, wife, age 25, married under 1 year, born Ealing, Middlesex.

Enlisted Ealing, Middlesex, age 30, height 5ft 2½ inches, weight 110½ lbs, teeth defective. 1st June 1916, height 5ft 2 inches, weight 105lbs. Resided 81 Cumberland Road, Hanwell, Middlesex. Formerly milk roundsman.

Home 12th December 1915 to 3rd October 1916; BEF 4th October 1916 to 31st July 1917.

12th December 1915, enlisted; 13th December 1915, to Army Reserve; 1st June 1916, mobilized & posted Depot, Royal Fusiliers, G/36642; 2nd June 1916, posted 5th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers; 4th October 1916, posted BEF & 11th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers; 14th October 1916, transferred to 10th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

1st February 1918, date to which Separation Allowance of 21/- a week and allotment from pay of 3/6 a week will be paid.

25th February 1918, pension of 22/11 a week awarded to widow and two children.

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

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