The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private G E Fox

Private George Edward FOX, G/5373, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, death assumed on or after 26th September 1915.

Born Newcastle, Gateshead, Northumberland.

17th November 1907, Farnborough, Kent, married Florence Ellen Checkley, spinster, 5 Church Road, Farnborough, Kent.

Children - Henry Edward Fox, born 29th February 1908, Orpington, Kent; Dorothy Florence Ethel Fox, born 29th December 1913, Farnborough, Kent.

1911 Census - 3 Sanderstead Road, St Mary Cray, Kent - George Fox, head, age 31, married, domestic gardener, born Newcastle, Gateshead; Florence Fox, wife, age 31, married 4 years, 1 child, sill alive, born Farnborough, Kent; Henry Fox, son, age 2, born Orpington, Kent.

Enlisted Bromley, Kent, age 34 years & 11 months, height 5ft 4¼ inches, weight 137lbs, mole back of neck & in loin. Resided 5 Church Road, Farnborough, Kent. Formerly gardener.

Home, 7th January 1915 to 29th August 1915; BEF, 30th August 1915 to 26th September 1915.

7th January 1915, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 16th January 1915, posted 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 30th August 1915, embarked; 26th September 1915, posted missing.

12th June 1916, pension of 21/- a week awarded to wife and two children.

Commemorated at Loos Memorial, Panel 95 to 97, Pas de Calais, France.

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