The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private E H Overbury

Private Edwin Henry OVERBURY, 204406, 3rd / 4th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 7826, Norfolk Regiment), killed in action, Flanders France, 19th October 1917, age 34.

Born Painswick, Gloucestershire, son of Edwin Henry & Rosanna Overbury.

Home 11th December 1899 to 10th May 1900; St Helena 11th May 1900 to 31st January 1902; South Africa 1st February 1902 to 18th November 1903; Home 19th November 1903 to 10th December 1911.

Enlisted Gloucester, age 18 years 2 months, height 5ft 4¾ inches, weight 121lbs, fresh complexion, grey eyes, brown hair. Formerly farm labourer.

11th December 1899, enlisted & posted Depot, Gloucestershire Regiment, Service No.5738; 7th April 1900, posted 2nd Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment; 1st February 1902, posted South Africa; 20th November 1903, transferred to Army Reserve; 10th December 1911, Discharged on Termination of his first period of Engagement.

24th January 1910, Parish Church, Haresfield, Gloucestershire, Edwin Henry Overbury, age 27, bachelor, Postman, Haresfield, father Edwin Henry, labourer, married Eva Cordelia Copner, age 28, spinster, Haresfield, father William Joseph Copner, deceased, farmer.

1911 Census - Chalford Hill, near Stroud, Gloucestershire - Edwin Overbury, head, age 28, married, Rural Postman, Post Office, born Harescombe Parish, Gloucestershire; Eda / Eva / Edna Overbury, wife, age 30, married 1 year, no children, born Haresfield Parish, Gloucestershire.

Enlisted Stroud, Gloucestershire. Resided Teakles Court, Haresfield, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire.

Commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 106 to 108, Belgium.

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