The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private F T Holden

Photograph by "International Wargraves Photography Project"

Private Frank Trickett HOLDEN, G/12202, 11th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 1st June 1917, age 24.

Born Sheffield, Yorkshire, son of Hugh Trickett & Annie Elizabeth Holloway (formerly Holden), Newlands, 58 Aldbourne Road, Uxbridge Road, W12.

1904 June, Ecclesall Bierlow, Yorkshire, Hugh Trickett Holden, died age 39.

1911 Census - 72 Victoria Street, Sheffield - Susan Topham, head, age 59, single, boarding house keeper, own account, born Crowland, Lincolnshire; Frank Weldon, boarder, age 21, labourer, iron foundry, worker, born Leicester; Ellen Palmer, boarder, age 47, widow, dousekeeper?, foundry, worker, born Sheffield, Yorkshire; Frank T Holden, boarder, age 19, single, engineer, electrical. worker, born Sheffield, Yorkshire; Frederick Exelby, boarder, age 46, single, coach & motor painter, worker, born York, Yorkshire.

1911 March, Ecclesall Bierlow, Yorkshire, Annie E Holden, married Andrew J Hollway.

1911 Census - Glenavon, Milton Road, Hanwell, West Middlesex - Andrew James Holloway, head, age 39, married, engineer draughtsman, engineering experimental, worker, born Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire; Annie Elizabeth Holloway, wife, age 37, married under 1 year, born Sheffield, Yorkshire.

Enlisted Gravesend, Kent, age 23 years & 153 days, height 5ft 7 inches, weight 137lbs. Resided 29 Portland Road, Gravesend, Kent. Formerly engineers mate.

Home, 10th December 1915 to 21st June 1916; BEF, 22nd June 1916 to 1st June 1917.

10th December 1915, enlisted; 11th December 1915, to Army Reserve; 10th February 1916, mobilized & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 10th February 1916, posted 9th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 21st June 1916, Folkestone, embarked; 21st June 1916, Boulogne, disembarked; 22nd June 1916, posted BEF & 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 22nd June 1916, Etaples, 41st Infantry Base Depot; 30th June 1916, 24 General Hospital, VDS slight; 30th June 1916, transferred to 9 Stationary Hospital, Havre; 1st July 1916 to 18th August 1916, 39 General Hospital, Havre; 20th August 1916, 40 Infantry Base Depot, Etaples; 23rd August 1916 to 25th August 1916, 20 General Hospital, Etaples; 5th September 1916, In the Field, absent from sick parade, falling out without permission, forfeits 5 days pay; 16th October 1916, rejoined Battalion; 22nd November 1916, 41 DRS, scabies; 21st January 1917, 50 N Casualty Clearing Station, to Duty 11th February 1917; 26th March 1917, Boulogne, 13 Stationary Hospital, JCT & buttock slight; 15th April 1917, Etaples, 40 Infantry Base Depot; 28th April? 1917, rejoined Battalion.

27th August 1919, Statement of Relatives - Mother, Annie E Holloway, 43 Aldbourne Road, Uxbridge Road, London, W12; Sisters - Ivy Holden, age 24, 43 Aldbourne Road, Uxbridge Road, London, W12.

Buried at Dickebusch New Military Cemetery, B. 35., Belgium.

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