The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private A O Youngman

Private Arthur Owen YOUNGMAN, G/20257, "D" Company, 1st Battalion Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, death assumed on or after, 26th October 1917, age 36.

Born Aldeburgh, Norfolk.

22nd July 1907, Rowmarsh, York, married Lucie Louise Airey, spinster, 109 High Street, Lewisham, SE / 53, Limes Grove, Lewisham, London.

Children - Ida Jessie Youngman, born 1st June 1908, Eastbourne, Sussex.

1911 Census - 17 Greystone Buildings, South Street, Eastbourne, Sussex - Arthur Owen Youngman, head, age 32, married, manservant, Butler, domestic, worker, born Harleston, Norfolk; Lucie Louise Youngman, wife, age 27, married 3years, 1 child, still alive, born Rotherham, Yorkshire; Ida Jessie Youngman, daughter, age 2, born Eastbourne, Sussex.

Enlisted Woolwich, Kent, age 35 years & 11 months, height 5ft 4½ inches, weight 126lbs. Resided Lewisham, Kent. Formerly assembling cartridges at Woolwich Arsenal.

Home, 10th December 1915 to 10th October 1917; BEF, 11th October 1917 to 26th October 1917.

10th December 1915, enlisted; 11th December 1915, to Army Reserve; 12th June 1917, mobilized; 13th June 1917, posted 1st Reserve London Regiment, Service No.204835; 5th October 1917, Blackdown, overstaying his leave from 10.00pm 5th October till 11.30pm 7th October 1917, 7 days confined to Barracks, fined 3 days pay, forfeits 3 days pay; 12th October 1917, Southampton; 13th October 1917, Havre; 16th October 1917. transferred and posted 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 21st October 1917, joined Battalion In the Field; 26th October 1917, posted missing.

11th May 1920, Statement of Relatives - Widow, Lucie Louise Youngman, 53, Limes Grove, Lewisham, SE13; Children, Ida Jessie Youngman, born 1st June 1908, 53, Limes Grove, Lewisham, SE13; In answer to all the following questions - I would inform you that my husband never knew any of his relations whatever, and was brought up by a : Mrs Mitchell, Redenhall, nr Harleston, Norfolk whose death took place in March 1919; Nephews / Nieces - Constance Mary Hardwick, age 6 years, Rotherham, Yorkshire; Roy Arthur Airey, age 2 years, Parhgate, Yorkshire, by marriage only.

Commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 106 to 108, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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