The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private A O Carr

Photograph by "Pearlady"

Private Albert Owen CARR, G/11802, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 27th June 1916, age 20.

Born Southborough, Kent, son of Albert Thomas and Elizabeth Ann Carr, of White Cottage, Bullington Lane, Speldhurst, Tunbridge Wells.

1911 Census - Palmers Farm, Fordcombe, near Tunbridge Wells, Kent - Albert Thomas Carr, head, age 48, married, stockman on farm, born Rotherfield, Sussex; Elizabeth Carr, wife, age 44, married 18 years, 3 children, all still alive, born Pembury, Kent; Elizabeth Carr, daughter, age 17, single, housemaid, at home, born Southborough, Kent; Albert Carr, son, age 15, poultry lad, born Southborough, Kent; Violet Carr, daughter, age 12, school, born Southborough, Kent; Frederick Collins, boarder, age 20, single, carter on farm, born Penshurst, Kent.

Enlisted Tunbridge Wells, Kent, age 20 years & 90 days, height 5ft 9 inches, weight 137lbs. Resided Palmers Farm, Fordcombe, near Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Formerly grocers assistant.

Home 11th DEcember1915 to 17th May 1916; BEF 18th May 1916 to 27th June 1916.

11th December 1915, enlisted; 18th May 1916, posted BEF & 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

27th August 1919, Statement of Relatives - completed by sister Elizabeth Ann Smith - Father, Albert Thomas Carr, White Cottage, Bullington Lane, Speldhurst, Tunbridge Wells; Mother, Elizabeth Ann Carr, White Cottage, Bullington Lane, Speldhurst, Tunbridge Wells; Sisters - Elizabeth Ann Smith, age 26, Bramley Cottage, Bullington Lane, Speldhurst, Tunbridge Wells; Violet May Carr, age 21, White Cottage, Bullington Lane, Speldhurst, Tunbridge Wells.

Buried at Dranoutre Military Cemetery, I. F. 14., Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Commemorated in St John the Baptist Church, Penshurst, Kent

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