The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private G R Bloomfield

Private Gordon Roland BLOOMFIELD, G/17133, 3rd Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died, 10.25am, 11th February 1919, at Central Military Hospital, Fort Hill, Chatham, Ward 26, influenza & bronchial pneumonia, age 32.

3rd October 1888, born Tottenham, North London, son of Arthur & Emma Bloomfield, 76 Blackboy Lane, Tottenham.

27th January 1889, St John, Vartry Road, Stamford Hill baptism of Gordon Roland Bloomfield, son of Arthur (labourer) & Emma Bloomfield, 3 Suffolk Road, Tottenham.

1911 Census - 76 Blackboy Lane, Tottenham - Arthur Bloomfield, head, age 55, married, gardener London County Council, born Wattisfield, Suffolk; Emma Bloomfield, wife, age 55, married 30 years, 8 children, all still alive, born Wike?, Worcestershire; Arthur Bloomfield, son, age 28, single, bottle washer, brewery, born Tottenham, Middlesex; Roland G Bloomfield, son, age 22, single, bottle washer, brewery, born Tottenham, Middlesex; Annie N V Bloomfield, daughter, age 20, single, domestic servant, born Tottenham, Middlesex; Gladys I A Bloomfield, daughter, age 17, single, domestic servant, grocery stores, born Tottenham, Middlesex; Evelyn E Bloomfield, daughter, age 12, school, born Tottenham, Middlesex.

5th March 1913, Edmonton Registry Office, married Sophia Louisa Jobson, of 76 Blackboy Lane, Tottenham.

Enlisted Mill Hill, age 28, height 5ft 3¾ inches, weight 132lbs, complexion, pale, eyes grey, hair brown, tattoos on both arms, right inguinal hernia, recommended for truss. Resided at 3 Suffolk Road, Tottenham. Formerly bottle washer.

Home 11th December 1915 to 17th October 1916; BEF 18th October 1916 to 2nd December 1916; Home 3rd December 1916 to 11th February 1919.

11th December 1915, enlisted; 12th December 1915, to Army Reserve; 28th July 1916, mobilized; 30th July 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 18th October 1916, posted BEF; 19th October 1916, embarked / disembarked; 20th October 1916, 40 Infantry Base Depot, Etaples & posted 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 3rd December 1916, hernia, to England ex 24 General Hospital, Etaples; 4th December 1916 to 2nd March 1917, St Lukes War Hospital Halifax; 15th August 1917, posted Eastern Command Depot, Shoreham; 25th August 1917, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 6th September 1917, posted Command Labour Centre, Thetford, Service No.60608; 12th September 1917, posted Scottish Command Labour Centre, Blairgowrie; 13th November 1917, posted 457th Agricultural Company, Perth; 12th November 1918, posted "A" Company, Scottish Command Labour Centre; 13th November 1918, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

14th February 1919, widow now living at 3 Westerfield Terrace, Seven Sisters Road, Tottenham, N15, claims the body for Burial at Tottenham Cemetery.

3rd April 1919, Sophia Louisa Bloomfield remarried Edmonton Registry Office, to William Percy Haylock.

15th August 1919, Gratuity of £5 15s 0d paid to widow.

31st August 1919, date when Separation Allowance of 16/- a week payable to wife, will cease.

18th September 1919, Statement of Relatives - Widow, Sophia Louisa Haylock, 53 Westerfield Road, Tottenham, N15.; Mother, Emma Bloomfield, 76 Blackboy Lane, Tottenham; Brothers - Harry Bloomfield, age 39, 31 Newlyn Road, Tottenham; William Bloomfield, age 37, 17 ???? Road, Tottenham; Fred Bloomfield, age 35, 7 Albert? Road, Tottenham; Stanley Bloomfield, age 23, 76 Blackboy Lane, Tottenham; Sisters - Annie Bloomfield, age 29, 76 Blackboy Lane, Tottenham; Gladys Bloomfield, age 26, 76 Blackboy Lane, Tottenham; Evelyn Bloomfield, age 21, 76 Blackboy Lane, Tottenham.

Buried at Tottenham Cemetery, Gen. 7361 (Screen Wall), United Kingdom.

NOTE: Is not shown in Regimental History or Soldiers Died in the Great War, but included on CWGC web site.

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