The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private F Pinchback

Photograph by "Pearlady"

Private Frederick PINCHBACK, G/2091, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, (gassed), 47 Casualty Clearing Station, Flanders France, 18th October 1917.

Born Stepney, London, E, son of Mrs Emily Roberts, 7th September 1914, 27 Augusta Street, Poplar, E; 23rd April 1918, 27 Gray Eagle Street, Spitalfields.

13th October 1889, St Phillip, Stepney, Frederick Richard Pinchback, age 24, bachelor, carman, 2 Hungerford Street, father Frederick Pinchback, coopers labourer, married Mary Ann Roberts, age 18, spinster, 51 New Road, father, Alfred Roberts, hoop bonder?

1901 Census - 17 Cahir? Street, Poplar - Frederick Pinchback, head, married, age 36, coopers labourer, born St Georges in the East; Mary Ann Pinchback, wife, married, age 30, born Borough; Frederick Pinchback, son, age 8, born Stepney.

1911 Census - 3 Dalgeish Place, Limehouse, London E - Joseph George Barrett, head, age 38, married 16 years, 5 children, 2 still alive, bookbinder, worker born St Georges in the East; Joseph George Barrett, son, age 15, single, errand boy, worker, born St Georges in the East; Fredrick Pinchback, wife's brother, boarder, age 47, widower, coopers labourer, worker, born St Georges in the East; Fredrick Pinchback, nephew, age 18, single, coopers labourer, worker, born Stepney.

Enlisted Woolwich, Kent, age 21 years & 240 days, height 5ft 5¾ inches, weight 121lbs, pale complexion, blue eyes, dark hair, scar upper lip. Formerly coopers labourer.

Home, 7th September 1914 to 25th July 1915; BEF, 26th July 1915 to 18th October 1917.

7th September 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 9th September 1914, posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 7th April to 12th April 1915, Purfleet Military Hospital, rheumatism; 26th July 1915, posted BEF & embarked; 15th January 1916 / 21st January 1916, wounded at Duty; 26th August 1916 to 1st September 1916, Leave; 12th October 1917, 54 Field Ambulance, wounded in action.

9th October 1920, Statement of Relatives - Father, Alfred Roberts, deceased; Mother, Emily Roberts, age 46, 7th Cooperative Buildings, Bethnal Green Road, E2.; Brothers, none; Sisters - Mary Freeman, age 23, 73 Skidmore Street, Stepney.

Buried at Dozinghem Military Cemetery, XII. I. 17., Belgium.

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