The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private F Ashdown

Private Frederick ASHDOWN, G/2780, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action Flanders, wounded and missing 25th / 27th September 1915, death presumed by War Office, 25th September 1915, age 19.

Born Burnham, Rochester, Kent, Son of David and Mary Ann Ashdown, of 11, Margetts Cottages, Wouldham, Rochester, Kent.

1911 Census - Chalk Poit, Burham, near Rochester, Kent - David Ashdown, head, age 52, married, bricklayer cement works, born Leybourne, Kent; Mary Ann Ashdown, wife, age 56, married 17 years, 3 children all still alive, born Hadlow, Kent; Isaac Kennett, stepson, age 32, single, cement labourer, born Hastings, Sussex; Frederick Ashdown son, age 15, single, labourer on farm, born Burham, Kent; Annie Ashdown, daughter, age 12, born Burham, Kent.

Enlisted 7th September 1914, Chatham, Kent; 30th August 1915, posted BEF. Formerly general labourer.

Commemorated at Loos Memorial, Panel 95 to 97, Pas de Calais, France and Burham War Memorial, Church Road/Rochester Road, Burham, Kent.

Wouldham, Kent Village Memories, page 30.

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