The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private G B Candler

Private George Benjamin CANDLER, G/2095, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 1st July 1916.

15th May 1896, born Bethnal Green, London, E. son of Herbert & Sophie Candler.

14th June 1896, St John, Bethnal Green, baptism of George Benjamin Candler, son of Herbert (foreman in tobacco factory), & Sophie Candler, of 24 or 27 Doveton Street.

1911 Census - 12 Somerford Street, Bethnal Green - Herbert Candler, head, age 35, married, general labourer, born Bethnal Green, London; Sophia Candler, wife, age 36, married 15 years, 9 children, 8 still alive, born St Georges, London; George Benjeman Candler, son age 14, born Bethnal Green, London; Arthur Candler, son, age 12, born Bethnal Green, London; Hilda Sophia Candler, daughter, age 10, Mile End, London; Herbert Candler, son, age 8, born Bethnal Green, London; Richard Robert Candler, son, age 6, born Bethnal Green, London; Matilda Candler, daughter, age 4, born Bethnal Green, London; Ellen Elizabeth Candler, daughter, age 2, Lily Margaret Candler, daughter, age 7 weeks, born St Georges, London.

Enlisted Woolwich, Kent.

26th July1915, posted BEF.

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 11C, Somme, France.

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