The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private E Hacon

Private Edgar HACON, 241848, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 9th October 1918.

1st October 1880, born Mile End, Middlesex, son of Levett & Ellen Hacon.

31st October 1880, St James The Great, Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets, baptism of Edgar Hacon, son of Levett & Ellen Hacon, 1 Mays' Buildings.

16th May 1909, St John of Jerusalem, Parish Church, South Hackney, Edgar Hacon, age 28, bachelor, corn dealers manager, 307 Bethnal Green Road, father, Levett Hacon, deceased, general dealer, married Minnie Rose Dixon, age 22, spinster, 26 Church Crescent, father, Jabez Dixon, deceased, club steward.

Child - Annie Rose Hacon, born 1st November 1911, Bethnal Green, London, E.

1911 Census - 307 Bethnal Green Road, London, NE - Edgar Hacon, head, age 30, married, corn merchant & forage merchant, retail shop, employer, born Bethnal Green; Minnie Rose Hacon, wife, age 24, married 2 years, 1 child, born Cambridge, Cambridgeshire; Minnie Rose Hacon, daughter, age 3 months, born Bethnal Green.

Enlisted Hackney, Middlesex, age 35 years & 2 months, height 5ft 1½ inches, weight 123lbs, excitable heart. Resided 12 Glaskin Street, Hackney, Middlesex. Formerly corn salesman / flour miller.

Home 10th December 1915 to 11th September 1917; BEF 12th September 1917 22nd October 1917; BEF 7th February 1918 to 9th October 1918.

10th December 1915, enlisted; 11th December 1915, to Army Reserve; 23rd September 1916, mobilized & posted Depot, 3rd Battalion, East Kent Regiment, (The Buffs), Territorial Force, Service No.5265; 29th September 1916, transferred to Royal West Kent Regiment; 12th September 1917, Folkestone, embarked; 12th September 1917, Boulogne, disembarked; 12th September 1917, 40 Infantry Base Depot, Etaples, posted 3/4th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 16th September 1917, joined Unit In the Field; 14th October 1917, evacuated sick; 23rd October 1917 to England & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 23rd October 1917 to 10th November 1917, 2nd Military Hospital, Old Park, Canterbury, Kent, piles; 10th November 1917 to 11th November 1917, Military Hospital, Chatham, piles; 12th November 1917, discharged Hospital; 13th November 1917 to 22nd November 1917. leave; 23rd November 1917, posted 4th Reserve Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 6th December 1917 to 9th December 1917, Hospital, hemorrhoids; 7th February 1918, embarked / disembarked; 22nd February 1918, 22 General Hospital, hemorrhoids; 28th April 1918, J Depot, Etaples; 3rd May 1918, joined 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment In the Field.

27th April 1919, date when Separation Allowance of 22/- a week and Allotment of Pay of 3/6 a week, payable to widow, will cease.

6th December 1919, Statement of Relatives - Widow - Minnie Rose Hacon, 21 Brampton Road; Child - Annie Rose Hacon, 1st November 1911, 21 Brampton Road; Father, deceased; Mother, Mrs F Newman, married again, 22 Queens Road, Brightlingsea; Brother - Charles Hacon, age, do not know, R.F.D. No.1.Route, Newport, Centre, Orleans, County Vermont U.S.A.; Sisters - Mrs F Cupples?, age 40?, 15 Lockhart Street, Bow; Mrs F Ford, age, not quite sure, 125 Clonmore Street, Southfields.

Commemorated at Vis-en-Artois Memorial, Panel 7, France.

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