The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private C G Hucks

Photograph by "Carlos Aelvoet"

Private Christopher Gilbert HUCKS, G/6783, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, Flanders France, 17th November 1915.

1895 October, born Seal, Kent, son of William & Dinah Hucks.

1911 Census - 4 Garden Terrace, Seal, Sevenoaks, Kent - William Hucks, head, age 70, married, roadman, District Council, worker, born Plaxtol, Kent; Dinah Hucks, wife, age 68, married 47 years, 11 children, 7 still alive, born Kemsing, Kent, invalid 2 years; Rose Hucks, daughter, age 25, housekeeper, born Seal, Kent; Christopher Hucks, grandson, age 15, single, drapers assistant, born, Seal, Kent.

Enlisted Maidstone, Kent.

11th October 1915, posted BEF.

Sole Legatee (Uncle), George E Hucks.

Buried at Reninghelst New Military Cemetery, I. B. 4., Belgium. Commemorated Seal Village War Memorial.

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