The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private F W East

Private Fred Wilmot EAST, G/20083, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, death assumed on or since, 26th October 1917, age 20.

Born Fullstow, Lincolnshire, son of Tom and Sarah East, of South Croxton, Leicester, Leicestershire.

1911 Census - Ivy House, South Croxton, Leicester, Leicestershire - Tom East, head, age 50, married, farmer, own account, Nether Broughton, Leicestershire; Sarah East, wife, age 42, married 17 years, 3 children, all still alive, born Newton on the Trent, Lincolnshire; Annie Wilmot East, daughter, age 17, single, farmers daughter, dairy work, born Dunstable, Bedfordshire; Fred Wilmot East, son, age 13, farmers son working on farm, born Fullstow, Lincolnshire; John Wilmot East, son age 4, born South Croxton, Leicester, Leicestershire.

Enlisted Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, age 18 years, 213 days, height 5ft 9¼ inches, weight 144lbs, scar back of right hand. Resided South Croxton, Leicester, Leicestershire. Formerly cowman.

Home 15th January 1916 to 11th October 1917; BEF 12th October 1917 to 26th October 1917.

15th January 1916, enlisted; 15th January 1916, to Army Reserve; 23rd May 1917, mobilized; 24th May 1917, Scarborough, posted No.3. Cavalry Depot, Service No.37910; 26th May 1917, posted 3rd Reserve Cavalry Regiment; 1st September 1917, transferred to Royal Fusiliers for posting to 5th Reserve Battalion, London Regiment, Service No.59243; 12th October 1917, 2nd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, posted BEF; 14th October 1917, transferred to Royal West Kent Regiment, posted 1st Battalion; 16th October 1917, joined Battalion, In the Field; 26th October 1917, posted missing.

8th October 1919, Statement of Relatives - Father, Tom East, South Croxton, Leicester; Mother, Sarah East, South Croxton, Leicester; Brother - John Wilmot East, age 13, South Croxton, Leicester; Sister - Annie Wilmot Platts, age 26, Baisby, Leicester; Nephews / Nieces - Fred Wilmot East Platts, Baisby, Leicester; Nellie Platts, Baisby, Leicester; Uncles / Aunts - William East, age 66, Cromwell, Newark; William Wilmot, age 68, Dunhouse? on Trent, Newark; Jos? Wilmot, age 64, 18 Well????? Road, Grimsby; Mrs Annie? Evan?, age 46, 4 Chiltern? Road, Dunstable.

Commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 106 to 108, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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