The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private A Rule


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Private Alfred RULE, TF/1976, 1st / 5th  Battalion, (attached 2nd Battalion),  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, at Kut with Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, 13th January 1916, age 29.

25th September 1886, born Beckenham, Kent, son of George &  Elizabeth Ann Rule, 34 Chislehurst Road, Beckley, Kent / 12, Shaftesbury Road, Beckenham, Kent.


1911 Census - 12, Shaftesbury Road, Beckenham, Kent - George Rule, head, age 53, married, gardener, domestic, worker, born Balsham, Cambridgeshire; Elizabeth Ann Rule, wife, age 51, married 29 years, 5 children, all still alive, born Brighton, Sussex; Alfred Rule, son, age 24, single, clerk, assistant, Civil Service Board of Education, worker, born Beckenham, Kent; Frank Rule, son, age 22, single, transfer clerk, Gold Mining Company, worker, born Beckenham, Kent.


Enlisted Bromley, Kent, age 28. Formerly clerk. Resided 59 Wickham Road, Beckenham, Kent.

Home 8th August 1914 to 28th October 1914; India 29th October 1914 to 21st August 1915; Indian Expeditionary Force "D" 22nd August 1915 to 13th January 1916.

 8th August 1914, enlisted & posted 1/5th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.


From De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour -


30th November 1919, Statement of Relatives - Widow, none; Children, none; Father George Rule, 12, Shaftesbury Road, Beckenham, Kent; Mother, Elizabeth Ann Rule, 12, Shaftesbury Road, Beckenham, Kent; Brothers - Charles Rule, age 34, 25 Bromley Crescent, Shortlands; Frank Rule, age 30, Pine Cottage, Pine Road, Beckley, Kent; Sisters - Ethel Elizabeth White, age 36, 523 Croydon Road, Beckenham, Kent; Phyllis ????? Rule, age 28, 12, Shaftesbury Road, Beckenham, Kent.

Buried at Kut War Cemetery, J. 10., Iraq. Commemorated on Bromley War Memorial.

NOTE: Regimental History & Soldiers Died in the Great War both show Service No. as TF/1976; CWGC web site shows it as TF/976.


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