The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private E Duke

Private Edwin DUKE, G/18191, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 30th September 1916, age 38.

Son of Thomas & Harriet Duke, of Steyning, Sussex.

2nd February 1879, Steyning, Sussex, baptism of Edwin Duke, son of Thomas & Harriet Duke.

1911 Census - Stowford, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire - Felicia Greenhill, head, age 70, widow, farmer, employer, born Norton St Philip, Somerset; Agnes Greenhill, daughter, age 48, single, born Norton St Philip, Somerset; Celia Greenhill, daughter, age 46, single, born Norton St Philip, Somerset; Edward Greenhill, son, age 42, single, farmers son working on farm, born Norton St Philip, Somerset; Florence Greenhill, daughter, age 30, single, born Norton St Philip, Somerset; Edwin Duke, boarder, age 33, single, corn miller, employer, born Steyning, Sussex.

29th June 1912, Warsash, Southampton, married Louisa Catherine Tounley, spinster, of 127, Millbrook Road, Southampton, Hampshire.

Child - Dorothy Tounley Duke, born 27th June 1916, Southampton.

Enlisted Trowbridge, Wiltshire, age 37 years & 3 months, height 5ft 8¼ inches. Resided Stowford, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire / The Red House, Warsash, Southampton. Formerly grist miller.

7th December 1915, enlisted; 15th December 1915, to Army Reserve; 27th March 1916, mobilized; 30th March 1916, posted 29th Royal Fusiliers, Service No.PS/10896; 28th August 1916, embarked; 29th August 1916, disembarked; 10th September 1918, 39 Infantry Base Depot, Etaples, transferred from 11 Royal Fusiliers to 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

28th February 1917, Probate - Duke Edwin of Stowford Mill, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire. Private 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, died 30th September 1916 in France, killed in action. Probate London 28th February to Louisa Catherine Duke, widow and James Duke, miller. Effects £3015 5s 11d.

14th May 1917, awarded pension of 18/9 a week to widow and one child.

1920 December Quarter, Fareham Registration District, Louisa C Duke married Alec Dixon.

Buried at Mill Road Cemetery, XIX. C. 1., Thiepval, Somme, France.

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