The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private F Coomber

Private Frederick COOMBER, L/7568, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, death presumed on or since, 23rd April 1915.

Born Tonbridge, Kent, son of William & Frances Coomber.

Enlisted Maidstone, Kent. Resided Maidstone, Kent.

1911 Census - India, Military - Frederick Coomber, Private, age 25, single, 2nd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, Soldier, born Tonbridge, Kent.

15th August 1914, posted BEF.

Commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate), Memorial, Panel 45 & 47, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Commemorated on Tonbridge War Memorial - Tonbridge War Memorial - The original World War I memorial at the Junction of Pembury Road and Quarry Hill. The names were later re-inscribed in the new Memorial Garden in Bradford Street.

From Tonbridge History - Fred Coomber was born at Tonbridge in 1887, the son of William and Frances Coomber and lived in Priory Street. After leaving school he worked as a draper’s assistant before enlisting with the Royal West Kent Regiment, seeing service in India. He was back in Tonbridge working as a postman at the outbreak of the war, when he was mobilised from the Reserve as Private L/7568 1st Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment. He went to France on 15th August 1914. He was wounded on October 27th at the battle of the Aisne. He was sent back to the UK, where he spent some time at Tidworth Hospital. He returned to his Battalion and was killed in action on 23rd April 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres [Menin Gate] Memorial.

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