The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private C W Card

Private Charles William CARD, G/17961, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, death assumed on or after, 4th October 1917.

Born Northfleet, Kent.

1911 Census - 72 Shepherds Street, Northfleet, Kent - Homer Card, head, age 55, married, cement labourer, born Northfleet, Kent; Harriett Card, wife, age 54, married 36 years, 14 children, 8 still alive, born Northfleet, Kent; Charles Card, son, age 33, single, cement labourer, born Northfleet, Kent; Harrce Card, son, age 27, single, unloading barges, paper mills, born Northfleet, Kent; Amy Card, daughter, age 24, single, field worker for farmer, born Northfleet, Kent; Ethel Card, daughter, age 16, single, born Northfleet, Kent; Percy Card, son, age 13, school, born Northfleet, Kent.

23rd December 1911, Northfleet, married Georgeina Perkins, spinster,

Child - Charles William Card, born 23rd January 1913, Northfleet, Kent.

Enlisted Gravesend, Kent, age 37 years & 318 days, height 5ft 4¼ inches, weight 158lbs. Resided 62 Shepherds Street, Northfleet, Kent / 20 York Street, Northfleet, Kent. Formerly labourer.

Home, 11th December 1915 to 12th October 1916; BEF, 13th October 1916 to 4th October 1917.

11th December 1915, enlisted; 12th December 1915, to Army Reserve; 16th June 1916, mobilized; 18th June 1916, posted 14th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, Service No.6166; 1st September 1916, transferred 97th Training Reserve, Service No. 33113; 14th October 19106, transferred to 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 14th October 1916, disembarked; 30th October 1916, joined Battalion, "C" Company; 4th October 1917, posted missing.

23rd June 1918, date when Separation Allowance of 19/6 a week ceases.

24th June 1918, pension of 20/5 a week awarded to widow and one child.

Commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 106 to 108, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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