The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private G F Hart

Private George Frederick HART, G/5349, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, death presumed on or after, 26th September 1915.

Born Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, son of Charles & Ellen Hart.

23rd April 1906, Chevening, Kent, married Gertrude Ada Hooper, Mackerels Plain, Ide Hill, Sevenoaks, Kent.

Children - Albert George Hart, born 7th May 1907, Chevening, Kent; Lionel Frederick Hart, born 23rd April 1908, Chevening, Kent.

1911 Census - Dibden, Riverhead, Sevenoaks, Kent - George Hart, head, age 28, married, gamekeeper, worker, born Rushbrook, Suffolk; Gertrude Hart, wife, age 25, married 5 years, 2 children, both still alive, born Sholing, Southampton, Hampshire; Albert Hart, son, age 4, born Chevening, Kent; Lionel Hart, son, age 2, born Chevening, Kent; George Townley, nephew, age 13, school, born Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

Enlisted Tonbridge, Kent, age 32 years 10 months, height 5ft 11 inches, small tattoos back left forearm. Resided Mackerels Plain, Ide Hill, Kent. Formerly gamekeeper.

4th January 1915, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 16th January 1915, posted 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 23rd May 1915, Shoreham, overstaying his pass from 12.00 midnight until 12.00 midnight on 25th May, deprived of 2 days pay, 4 days confined to Barracks, forfeits 2 days pay; 26th September 1915, posted missing.

12th June 1916, pension of 18/6 a week awarded to widow & two children.

Commemorated at Loos Memorial, Panel 95 to 97., France.

NOTE; Regimental History & Soldiers Died in the Great War show Service No. as G/5349; CWGC web site show it as G/35349

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