The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private F W Baddeley

Private Frank William BADDELEY, /16374, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 12036, Suffolk Regiment & Divisional Cyclists Corps, 2877), killed in action, Flanders, France, 9th August 1918, age 22.

1895, born Bebington, Liverpool, son of Frederick Charles and Louisa Mary Baddeley, of 15, Sydenham Avenue, Liverpool.

1911 Census - 15, Sydenham Avenue, Liverpool - Frederick Charles Baddeley, head, age 40, married, flour agent & dealer, born Birkenhead, Cheshire; Louisa Baddeley, wife, age 39, married 15 years, 4 children, all still alive, born Wallwasey, Cheshire; Frank William Baddeley, son, age 14, born Bebington, Cheshire; Joan Baddeley, daughter, age 12, born Liverpool, Lancashire; Hugh Mardock Baddeley, son, age 10, born Liverpool, Lancashire; Mary Margaret Baddeley, daughter, age 3, born Crosby, Lancashire; Hilda Mary Spriggs, servant, age 18, single, general domestic servant, born Liverpool, Lancashire.

Enlisted Ipswich, Suffolk, age 19, height 5ft 9 inches, weight 147lbs. Formerly labourer. Resided Bebington, Liverpool.

Home 20th August 1914 to 2nd M\y 1916; BEF, 3rd May 1916 to 9th June 1917; Home, 10th June 1917 to 1st October 1917; BEF, 2nd October 1917 to 9th August 1918.

20th August 1914, enlisted into Suffolk Regiment & posted Depot; 30th January 1915, transferred to 12th Divisional Cyclist Corps; 29th June 1915, Court of Enquiry, Hounslow Heath, inquiring into the illegal absence & deficiency of kit. The Court declares that No. 2877 Pte Baddeley, Divisional Cyclists Corps, illegally absented himself without leave on the 31st May 1915, & that he still so absent; 21st August 1915, deserted; 13th November 1915, posted 41st Divisional Cyclist Corps; 4th March 1916, passed class of instruction, 2nd Class Grenadier, 168 Company Order; 5th May 1916, embarked; 29th May 1916, transferred to 10th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 19th November 1916, while on active service leaving his fatigue and returning while ???? without permission, 7 days confined to Barracks; 7th June 1917, wounded & transferred to England; 10th June 1917, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 10th June to 11th June, Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham, gun shot wound shoulder; 11th June to 16th July 1917, Rusthall Hospital, Tunbridge Wells; 26th July 1917, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 2nd October 1917, posted BEF & embarked; 13th November 1917, with Battalion to Italy; 9th March 1918, posted 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 23rd March 1916, joined 6th Battalion, In the Field; 22nd June 1918, 27 Field Ambulance, debility; 9th July 1918, rejoined Battalion.

Buried at Ville-sur-Ancre Communal Cemetery Extension, Plot B12, Somme, France.

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