The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private A Mankey

Private Arthur MANKEY, G/2066, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, death presumed on or after, 13th July 1916.

13th June 1869, St George, Camberwell, Southwark, John Martin Mankey, full age, bachelor, paper maker, Wells Street, father Jeremiah Mankey, paper maker, married Hephzibah Bowers, full age, spinster, father Ebenezer Bowers, blacksmith.

Born Shoreham, Kent, son of John & Hephzibah Mankey.

1895 Sevenoaks Registration District, Hephzibah Mankey died age 43.

1896 September, Dartford Registration District, John Mankey married Mary Wright.

1911 Census - 1, Granville Terrace, Shire Hall Road, Hawley, Dartford, Kent - John Mankey, head, age 61, married, paper making dying, machiner paper factory, worker, born Stithians, Cornwall; Mary Mankey, wife, age 49, married 15 years, 5 children, 4 still alive, born Hunslet, Yorkshire; Silas Mankey, son, age 27, single, greenhouse, market gardener, worker, born Shoreham, Kent; Annie Mankey, daughter, age 19, single, paper mill stripper, paper mill worker, born Shoreham, Kent; Arthur Mankey, son, age 17, single, paper mill starch maker, paper mill worker, born Shoreham, Kent; #Doris Mankey, daughter, age 11, school, born Sutton at Hone, Kent; #John Mankey, son age 8, school, born Sutton at Hone, Kent; #William Frank Mankey, son, age 7, school, born Sutton at Hone, Kent; Ivy Eliza Mankey, grandchild, age 14, at home, born Sutton at Hone, Kent; Sydney Wright, stepson, age 18, single, paper mill coating, paper mill, worker, born Sutton at Hone, Kent; Jessie Mankey, daughter, age 22, single, paper mill painting, worker, born Shoreham, Kent; #Myrtle Mankey, daughter, age 14, home, born Sutton at Hone, Kent.

# Children of Mary & John Mankey

Enlisted Woolwich, Kent, age 21 years & 90 days, height 5ft 3 inches, weight 110lbs, dark complexion, grey eyes, dark brown hair, tattooed left forearm. Resided Dartford, Kent. Formerly builders labourer.

Home, 7th September 1914 to 25th July 1915; BEF, 26th July 1915 to 13th July 1916.

7th September 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 10th September 1914, posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 26th July 1915, posted BEF & embarked; 13th July 1916, posted missing.

8th July 1919, Statement of Relatives - Widow, none; Children, none; Father, John Mankey; Mother, none; Brothers - *Owen Mankey, age 50?, St? John? Terrace, Sutton at Hone; *Edwin Mankey, age 48?, 26 Park? Street, Maidstone; *Harry Mankey, age 36, Fair View, Hawley; *Silas Mankey, age 35?, Granville Terrace, Hawley, Kent; *John Mankey, age 18, Granville Terrace, Hawley, Kent; *William Mankey, age 16, Granville Terrace, Hawley, Kent; Sisters *Jessie Mankey, age 32, Levin? Road, Bexley Heath; *Anne Mankey, age 30; *Myrtle Mankey, age 21, Granville Terrace, Hawley, Kent.

*Children of John & Hepzibah Mankey.

Note - half blood brothers and sisters not listed.

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 11C, France / Sutton-at-Hone War Memorial.

This page was last updated on 23-Aug-2021.