The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private B D Hillsden

Private Benjamin Daintry HILLSDEN, 202923, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, 3rd Southern, General Hospital, Oxford, 16th October 1918.

Born Whitmore, Staffordshire.

1911 Census - Rooms over Kilburn Stables, Station Road, Oakham, Rutland - Bertie Proudman, head, age 23, single, groom domestic, worker, born Twyford, Leicestershire; Benjamin Hillsdon, boarder, age 22, single, groom domestic, worker, born Whitmore, Staffordshire.

1916, March, Hitchin Registration District, married Alice Maud Smith.

Child? - Vera Constance Hillsdon, born 1916, September, Hitchin Registration District; Glady M Hillsdon; Charles F I Smith Hillsdon;

Enlisted Bedford, Bedfordshire. Resided Hitchin, Hertfordshire.

Buried at At East end of Church, (St Mary's) Churchyard, Kings Walden, Hertfordshire.

NOTE: Regimental History & Soldiers Died in the Great War both spell last name HILLSDEN ; CWGC web site spells it HILLSDON.

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