The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private C S Cosgrove

Private Charles Septimus COSGROVE, 205448, 10th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 4769, Northumberland Fusiliers), killed in action, Flanders France, 21st September 1917, age 38.

Born Wallsend, Northumberland, son of John and Emily Cosgrove, of Middlesbrough, Yorkshire.

1911 Census - 84 Palmerston Terrace, Middlesborough, Yorkshire - John Cosgove, head, age 77, married, weighman, blast furnace, iron ore smelter, born County Derry, Ireland, Irish Nationality; Amelie Cosgrove, wife, age 68, married 52 years, 9 children, 7 still alive, Lũneberg, Germany, German Nationality; Robert Cosgrove, son, age 41, single, foreman, blast furnace, iron ore smelter, born Felling, Durham; Emily Cosgrove, daughter, age 34, single, teacher of music, own account, born Byker, Northumberland; Charles Septimus Cosgrove, son, age 31, single, ironmonger, own account, born Wallsend, Northumberland.

1912, June Quarter, Middlesborough Registration District, married Amy Bertha Whittingham, of 128, Clarendon Road, Middlesbrough, Yorkshire. Organist and Music Teacher.

1913, Kelly's Directory of North & East Ridings of Yorkshire - Charles Septimus Cosgrove, 85 Nelson Street, ironmonger.

Enlisted Middlesborough, Yorkshire. Resided Middlesborough, Yorkshire.

Buried at Hooge Crater Cemetery, XI. E. 8., Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Commemorated on family gravestone, municipal cemetery Linthorpe, Yorkshire. - Amelia D E Cosgrove, 1842 to 1927, first name on monument; John Cosgrove, husband of Amelia D E Cosgrove; Charles Septimus Cosgrove, 1917; Emily Cosgrove, 1877 to 1965; Robert Cosgrove, 1868 to 1935.

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