The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment
Private C E Early
Private Charles Edward EARLY, G/5075, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders, France, 3rd September 1916, age 21.
Born Brockley, Kent, son of Edward Richard & Eliza Jane Early, of 40A, Wallbutton Road., Brockley, London.
1911 Census - Edward Richard Early, head, age 44, married, printer & wholesale stationers assistant, unable to follow employment, born St Georges, Southwark, blind at 38 years old; Eliza Jane Early, wife, age 41, married 18 years, 4 children, all still alive, born Bermondsey, London; Horace Cochrane Early, son, age 17, single, compositors apprentice, born Brockley, London; Charles Edward Early, son, age 16, single, printer & wholesale stationers shop keepers assistant, born Brockley, London; Hilda May Early, daughter, age 13, school, born Peckham, London; Ethel Winifred Early, daughter, age 10, school, born Peckham, London.
Enlisted Deptford, Kent.
30th August 1915, posted BEF.
Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 11C, Somme, France.
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