The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private G Preedy

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Private Gordon PREEDY, 202720, 6th Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 17452, Gloucester Regiment), killed in action, Flanders France, 1st July 1918.

Born Hammersmith, Middlesex, son of Frank & Emily Preedy.

1911 Census - 6 The Bourne, 235 High Road, Chiswick - Frank Preedy, head, age 45, married, commercial traveller, leather, worker, born Ealing, Middlesex; Emily Preedy, wife, age 45, married 24 years, 5 children, all still alive,  born Ealing, Middlesex; Francis Edward Preedy, son, age 22, single, traveller, tea, worker, born Ealing, Middlesex; Ruby Preedy, daughter, age 20, single, born Hammersmith; Victor Preedy, son, age 17, single, clerk motor works, worker, born Hammersmith; Gordon Preedy, son, age 11, born Hammersmith; Ivy Preedy, daughter, age 7, born Hammersmith; John Colman, boarder, age 29, single, printer, worker, born Brighton.

Enlisted Bristol, Gloucestershire. Resided Hastings, Sussex. 

21st November 1915, posted BEF.

Commemorated at Pozieres Memorial, Panel 58 and 59, France. / Hastings Roll of Honour.