The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private E Goose

Photograph by "Kevin Scotland"

St. Lawrence Church, Mereworth, Tonbridge & Malling Borough, Kent,

Photograph by "DS51"

Private Edgar GOOSE, G/496, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds 15th October 1915, Flanders France, age 19

Born Lewisham, London, SE, son of Arthur & Mary Elizabeth Goose, of Kent, and the late Arthur Goose.

1911 Census - Street (Black Lion), Mereworth, Maidstone, Kent - Arthur Goose, head, age 51, married, beer retailer, Police Pensioner, own account, at home, born Scottow, Norfolk; Mary Elizabeth Goose, wife, age 41, married 20 years, 4 children, 3 still alive, assisting in business, born Whitechapel, London; Edgar Goose, son, age 15, single, under gardener, domestic, born Lewisham, London; Annie Goose, daughter, age 13, school, born Beckenham, Kent; Elsie Goose, daughter, age 11, school, born Penge, London.

Enlisted Gravesend Kent. Resided Mereworth Kent.

1st June 1915, posted BEF.

Buried at Lillers Communal Cemetery, IV. C. 47. Pas de Calais, France and at St. Lawrence Church, Mereworth, Kent.

NOTE: In Regimental History listed as G GOOSE, G/946 and in Soldiers Died in the Great War shown as enlisted at Maidstone, Kent.

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