The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private E W Worby


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Private Ernest William WORBY, G/28323, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment,  killed in action, Flanders France, death presumed on or after, 21st March 1918, age 19.

26th November 1898, born Wood Green, Middlesex, son of George Edward and Eva Worby, of 101, Archibald Street, Cote St. Paul, Montreal, Canada.


1911 Census - 216 Langham Road, West Green, South Tottenham, Middlesex - George Edward Worby, head, age 41, married, greengrocer, carman, worker, born Ipswich, Suffolk; Eva Worby, wife, age 37, married 15 years, 4 children, all still alive, born Wood Green, Middlesex; George Gains Worby, son, age 14, drapers porter, worker, born Lewisham, Kent; Ernest William Worby, son, age 12, school, butcher boy, born Wood Green, Middlesex; Edward Harry Worby, son, age 6, school, born Wood Green, Middlesex; Dorothy Eva Worby, daughter, age 3, born South Tottenham, Middlesex.


Enlisted Mill Hill, Middlesex. Resided 18 Saxon Road, Wood Green, N22.

21st March 1918, posted missing.

Commemorated at Pozieres Memorial, Panel 58 and 59, Somme, France.


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