The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private F B Fox

Private Frederick Barber FOX, S/63, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 3rd July 1916.

Born Clerkenwell, Middlesex,

12th January 1907, Holborn, London, married Emily Elenor Hunt, spinster.

Children - Bertha Emily Elenor, born 16th August 1907, Walthamstow, West Ham; Joan Elizabeth, born 22nd October 1911, Barnsbury, Islington.

1911 Census - 51 Havelock Street, Islington, London, N - Frederick Fox, head, age 33, married, printer, type caster, born Clerkenwell, London; Emily Fox, wife, age 25, married 4 years, 1 child, still alive, tobacco leaf stripper, born Clerkenwell, London; Bertha Fox, daughter, age 3, born Walthamstow, London.

Enlisted Maidstone, Kent, age 36 years 8 months, height 5ft 5½ inches, weight 135lbs, blue eyes, brown hair. Resided 31 Church Street, Tovil, Maidstone, Kent /123 Carr Street, Walthamstow, NE./ 23 Farleigh Hill, Tovil, Maidstone, Kent. Formerly printers machinist.

Home 17th August 1914 to 14th April 1916; BEF 15th April 1916 to 3rd July 1916.

17th August 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 21st August 1914, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 15th April 1916, posted BEF & 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 15th April 1916, embarked; 3rd July 1916, posted missing.

12th March 1917, pension of 18/6 a week awarded to widow & two children.

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 11C, Somme, France.

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