The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private C F Huse

Private Charles Frederick HUSE, G/18835, 11th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, death assumed on or after, 20th September 1917.

Born Kingston, Surrey, son of Thomas Huse & Maria Huse.

1911 Census - No.7. Fairfield Place, Mill Street, Kingston on Thames, Surrey - Maria Huse, head, age 65, widow, 9 children, 8 still alive, born Kingston on Thames; Henry Springett, son, age 45, single, general labourer, born Kingston on Thames; Charles Huse, son, age 27, single, general labourer, born Kingston on Thames.

Enlisted Kingston, Surrey, age 32 years & 3 months, height 5ft 7 inches. Resided 20 Burritt Road, Norbiton, Surrey.

Home 13th November 1915 to 1st October 1916; BEF 2nd October 1916 to 27th February 1917; Home 28th February 1917 to 31st August 1917; BEF 1st September 1917 to 20th September 1917.

13th November 1915, enlisted; 14th November 1915, posted Army Reserve; 20th March 1916, mobilized; 21st March 1916, posted 4/8th Middlesex Regiment, Service No.6377; 2nd October 1916, posted BEF & 1/7th Middlesex Regiment; 2nd October 1916, Folkestone, embarked; 2nd October 1916, Boulogne, disembarked; 14th October 1916, transferred to 4th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 25th February 1917, 8 Stationery Hospital, Wimereux, trench feet; 27th February 1917, to England on Hospital Ship; 28th February 1917, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 5th April 1917, Metropolitan Hospital, admitted 28th February 1917, trench feet, age 33, transferred to Weybridge for convalescent treatment with massage; 5th April 1917 to 3rd May 1917, Military Hospital, St Georges Hill; 3rd May 1917 to 12th May 1917, furlough; 16th May 1917 to 23rd July 1917, posted Eastern Command Depot, Shoreham by Sea, Sussex, trench feet, received arm & leg drill & marching; 24th July 1917, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 1st September 1917, posted BEF & 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 20th September 1917, posted missing.

8th July 1918, date when Separation Allowance of 12/6 a week, paid to mother will cease.

*Died 17th November 1918, next of Kin, (daughter), Mrs Alice Maud Mary Bowyer, 16 Cambridge Grove Road, Norbiton, Kingston on Thames, Surrey.

29th September 1919, Statement of Relatives, completed by sister, Mrs Alice Maud Mary Bowyer - Father, none; Mother, none; Half Brother, Henry Springett, age 48, 20 Burritt Road, Norbiton, Kingston on Thames, Surrey; Sisters - Mrs Alice Maud Mary Bowyer, age 34, 20 Burritt Road, Norbiton, Kingston on Thames, Surrey; Half Sister - Mrs A L Blackmore, age 46, 20 Burritt Road, Norbiton, Kingston on Thames, Surrey.

Miss Lizzie M Hoad, Church Farm, Cottershaw, near Chertsey, Surrey.

Commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 106 to 108, Belgium.

This page was last updated on 23-Feb-2020.