The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private C B Payne

Photograph by "Danielle"

Private Charles Barnett PAYNE, G/21753, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 3725, 3/1 Royal Gloucester Hussars Yeomanry), killed in action, Flanders France, 19th October 1918.

Born Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, son of John & Celia Payne.

1911 Census - Iron Mills, Minchampton, Gloucestershire - John Payne, head, age 54, married, carter, on Estate, worker, born Avening, Gloucestershire; Celia Payne, wife. age 53, married 29 years, 2 children, both still alive, born Avening, Gloucestershire; Kate Adele Payne, daughter, age 28, single, mill hand, cloth mill, spinning department, worker, born Minchampton, Gloucestershire; Charles Barnet Payne, son, age 22, single, clerk, worker, born Avening, Gloucestershire.

22nd May 1915, Shortwood Chapel, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, married Cassie Edith Watts, spinster, Hernlea, Avening, Gloucestershire.

Children - Mary Cissie Payne, born 16th February 1917, Stroud Registration District.

Enlisted Stroud, Gloucestershire, age 27th years, & 61 days, height 5ft 4¼ inches, weight 125lbs, decayed teeth. Resided Longfords Valley, Minchampton, Gloucestershire.

Home 27th November 1915 to 15th December 1916; BEF 16th December 1916 to 2nd May 1917; Home 3rd May 1917 to 24th July 1918; BEF 25th July 1918 to 19th October 1918.

27th November 1915, enlisted; 28th November 1915, to Army Reserve; 29th May 1916, mobilized & posted Royal Gloucester Hussars Yeomanry, Service No.3725; 16th December 1916, Southampton, embarked; 17th December 1916, Rouen, disembarked; 17th December 1916, Rouen, Infantry Base Depot; 31st December 1916, posted 2/6 Battalion Gloucester Regiment; 4th April 1917, Field Ambulance JCT toe; 6th April 1917, 107 Field Ambulance JCT toe; 8th April 1917, 9 General Hospital, Trench Feet (set); 2nd May 1917, Rouen, transferred to England; 3rd May 1917 to 18th June 1917, 3rd London General Hospital, Wandsworh, trench feet; 29th June 1917 to 30th January 1918, Command Depot, Ballyvonare, County Cork; 30th January 1918, posted 4th Reserve Battalion, Gloucester Regiment, Service No.203575; 7th June 1918, partial upper & lower dentures inserted, dentally fit; 25th July 1918, Folkestone, embarked; 25th July 1918, Boulogne, disembarked; 28th July 1918, "D" Infantry Base Depot, posted 2/5th Battalion, Gloucester Regiment; 31st July 1918, posted & proceed to join, 12th Battalion, Gloucester Regiment; 4th August 1918, joined Unit In the Field; 6th October 1918, transferred & joined 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, In the Field.

20th July 1918, Mrs Cissie Payne, now living at 7 Falmouth Avenue, Ottley Road, Bradford, Yorkshire.

2nd June 1919, pension awarded of 20/5 a week for widow & one child.

1921 June Quarter, Knaresborough, Cassie E Payne, married Harold Lawley.

Buried at St Souplet British Cemetery, II. A. 5., France.

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