The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private D Lavender

Private Dennis LAVENDER, G/9548, 2nd Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, 28th October 1918.

Born Mountfield, Hastings, Sussex, son of James & Adelaide Lavender, of East View, Gun Farm, Horsmonden, Kent.

28th June 1896, Sussex, baptism of Dennis Lavender, son of James & Alice Lavender.

1911 Census - Hill Top, Brenchley, Paddock Wood, Kent - James Lavender, head, age 42, married, farmer, born Robertsbridge, Sussex; Alice Lavender, wife, age 42, married 18 years, 10 children, all still alive, born Mountfield, Sussex; Charles Lavender, son, age 16, single, farmers son working on farm, worker, born Mountfield, Sussex; Dennis Lavender, son, age 14, farmers son working on farm, worker, born Mountfield, Sussex; Kate Lavender, daughter, age 8, born Horsmonden, Kent; Rowland Lavender, son, age 4, born Horsmonden, Kent; Elizabeth Lavender, daughter, age 2, born Horsmonden, Kent.

Enlisted Maidstone, Kent. Resided Brenchley, Kent.

His brother Charles James also fell, see Pte C J Lavender.

Buried at Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, XVIII. F. 1/29., Iraq.

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