The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private B A Young

Private Benjamin Abraham YOUNG, S/9144, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 2nd September 1916, age 21.

Born Gravesend, Kent, son of Joseph Walter & Mary Ann Young, of 46, Lower Range Road, Denton, Gravesend, Kent.

1911 Census - 48 Bentley Street, Gravesend, Kent - John Walter Young, head, age 48, married, dock labourer, worker, born Canterbury, Kent; Mary Ann Young, wife, age 39, married 18 years, 8 children, all still alive, born Gravesend, Kent; Florence Alice Young, daughter, age 17, single, general servant, domestic, born Gravesend, Kent; Benjamin Young, son, age 16, single, bottle washer, brewery, worker, born Gravesend, Kent; Elizabeth Frances Young, daughter, age 14, born Gravesend, Kent; Joseph Walter Young, son, age 11, school, born Gravesend, Kent; Charles Frederick Young, son, age 8, born Gravesend, Kent; Emily Louise Young, daughter, age 7, born Gravesend, Kent; Hilda Mary Young, daughter, age 4, born Gravesend, Kent; Sydney Clifford Young, son, age 1, born Gravesend, Kent;

William Mastin, visitor, age 39, married, waterman, own account, born Gravesend, Kent; Elizabeth Mastin, visitor, age 36, married 11 years, 7 children, 6 still alive, born Gravesend, Kent; William Mastin, visitor, age 10, school, born Gravesend, Kent; George Mastin, visitor, age 8, born Gravesend, Kent; Dorothy Mastin, visitor, age 7, born Gravesend, Kent; Alec Mastin, visitor, age 6, born Gravesend, Kent; Leonard Mastin, visitor, age 3, born Gravesend, Kent; Alice Mastin, visitor, age 8 months, born Gravesend, Kent.

Enlisted Gravesend, Kent. Resided 46, Lower Range Road, Denton, Kent.

1st October 1915, posted BEF.

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 11C, Somme, France.

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