The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private C Burman

Private Charles BURMAN, G/8852, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, death assumed on or after, 26th September 1915.

Born Bethnal Green, Middlesex, son of Alfred & Annie Burman.

1911 Census - 148 Chelmsford Road, Walthamstow - Alfred Burman, head, age 42, married, boot maker, born Bethnal Green; Annie Burman, wife, age 38, married 19 years, 11 children, 10 still alive, born Bethnal Green; Alfred Burman, son, age 18, single, factory hand, uniform clothes, born Hackney; Annie Burman, daughter, age 16, single, factory hand, Electric Wire Co. born Shoreditch; Charles Burman, son, age 15, shop assistant drapers, born Hackney; Rosie Burman, daughter, age 13, school, born Bethnal Green; Alice Burman, daughter, age 10, school, born Bethnal Green; Sarah Burman, daughter, age 8, school, born Walthamstow; Daisy Burman, daughter, age 6, school, born Walthamstow; Albert Burman, son, age 4, born Walthamstow; Henry Burman, son, age 2, born Walthamstow; Frederick Burman, son, age 3 months, born Walthamstow; Alfred Johnson, age 66, lodger, widower, bricklayer, born Shoreditch.

Previously served with 2/7th Battalion, Essex Regiment, service No.2202, from 16th February 1914. Age 17, height 5ft 4 inches. Discharged 9th July 1915, joined Regular Army. Home 16th February 1914 to 9th July 1915.

Enlisted Blackdown Camp, age 17 years, 6 months. Resided 148 Chelmsford Road, Walthamstow Formerly tailor

Home 10th July 1915 to 29th August 1915; BEF 30th August 1915 to 26th September 1915.

10th July 1915, enlisted; 10th July 1915, posted 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 26th September 1915, posted wounded & missing.

5th January 1918, personal effects to Private Alfred Burman, No. S/777, c/o The Officer Commanding, Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment, Maidstone, Kent. / 95 Beulah Road, Walthamstow, London, E17

21st August 1919, Statement of Relatives - Father, Alfred Burman, 95 Beulah Road, Walthamstow, London, E17; Mother, Annie Burman, 95 Beulah Road, Walthamstow, London, E17; Brothers - Albert, age 12, 95 Beulah Road, Walthamstow, London, E17; Henry, age 10, 95 Beulah Road, Walthamstow, London, E17; Frederick, age 8, 95 Beulah Road, Walthamstow, London, E17; Horace, age 4, 95 Beulah Road, Walthamstow, London, E17; Sisters - Minnie?, age 25, 95 Beulah Road, Walthamstow, London, E17; Rose, age 21, 95 Beulah Road, Walthamstow, London, E17; Sarah, age 17, 95 Beulah Road, Walthamstow, London, E17; Daisy, age 14, 95 Beulah Road, Walthamstow, London, E17; Flossie?, age 6, 95 Beulah Road, Walthamstow, London, E17.

Commemorated at Loos Memorial, Panel 95 to 97, Pas de Calais, France.

London Gazette 28th September 1917.

SOLDIERS' BALANCES UNDISPOSED OF.

In pursuance of "The Regimental Debts Act, 1893," notice is hereby given that there is available for distribution amongst the Next of Kin or others entitled the sum of money set opposite to the name of each of the deceased Soldiers named in the lists which are published with this notice in the London Gazette and the "Army List," and are also to be seen at' the Regimental Depots throughout the United Kingdom.

Applications from persons supposing themselves entitled as Next of Kin should be addressed by letter to "The Secretary, War Office, Imperial Institute, South Kensington, London, S.W. 7," and marked outside "Effects."

R. H. BRADE. War Office, Sept. 28, 1917.

List CCCCCVII of the names of deceased Soldiers whose Personal Estate is held for distribution amongst the Next of Kin or others entitled. Effects 1916-1917.

Burman, C., Private, Royal West Kent Regt. £3 14s 5d

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