The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private G T Brawn

Photograph by "GeertB"

Private George Thomas BRAWN, G/19155, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 21st March 1918, age 31.

Born Walthamstow, Essex, son of George & Sarah Brawn.

1911 Census - 217 Lymington Avenue, Wood Green, N22 - Sarah Ellen Brawn, head, age 50, widow, married 29 years, 6 children, 5 still alive, born Manchester, Lancashire; William James Brawn, son, age 26, single, bookasellers assistant, born Walthamstow, Essex; George Thomas Brawn, son, age 24, single, salesman, wholesale clothier, born Walthamstow, Essex; Alice May Brawn, daughter, age 22, single, assistant mistress, L.G.C. School, born Walthamstow, Essex; Nellie Brawn, daughter, age 20, single, shorthand typist, wholesale outfitter, born Walthamstow, Essex; Grace Elizabeth Brawn, daughter, age 19, single, dressmaker, born Walthamstow, Essex; Martha Winch, Aunt, age 80, widow, married 51 years, born Leigh, Essex.

12th December 1914, St Michaels Church, Wood Green, married Daisy Alice Culpick, of 19 Bradley Road, Wood Green, London.

Called up to Maidstone, Kent, age 29, height 5ft 6¾, weight 119lbs, deafness left ear, one flat foot, eczema, body & limbs. Resided 23 Stone Street, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Formerly draper traveller.

Home 30th August 1916 to 3rd January 1917; BEF 4th January 1917 to 9th June 1917; Home 10th June 1917 to 17th December 1917; BEF 18th December 1917 to 21st March 1918.

30th August 1916, Called up for Service; 2nd September 1916, posted 2/1st Kent Cyclist Battalion, Service No.2877; 3rd January 1917, embarked / disembarked; 4th January 1917, posted Royal West Kent Regiment; 9th February 1917, joined 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 7th June 1917, wounded in action; 8th June 1917, 4 General Hospital, Camiens, gun shot wound right shoulder; 9th June 1917, Hospital Ship, Esseouibo, transferred to England; 10th June 1917, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 12th June 1917, Eastleight Military Hospital, gun shot wound right shoulder; 17th June 1917, transferred to Grove Military Hospital, Tooting; 19th June 1917 to 25th August 1917, Grove Military Hospital, Tooting Grove, SW, gun shot wound right arm & shoulder; th September 1917 to 12th November 1917, Eastern Command Depot, Shoreham on Sea, gun shot wound right forearm, & shoulder, received a course of arm drill; 13th November 1917, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 18th December 1917, posted BEF; 22nd December 1917, posted 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

7th October 1918, pension of 13/9 a week awarded to widow.

4th June 1920, Statement of Relatives - Widow, Daisy Alice Brawn, 27, Cranbrook Park, Wood Green, London; no children; Mother, Sarah Ellen Brawn, 217 Lymington Avenue, Wood Green, N22; Brother - William James Brawn, age 35, 79 Uplands Road, Crouch End; Sisters - Nellie Brawn, age 29, 217 Lymington Avenue, Wood Green, N22; Grace Elizabeth Brawn, age 28, 217 Lymington Avenue, Wood Green, N22.

Buried at Pont-de-Nieppe Communal Cemetery, II.E.7., Nord, France.

NOTE: Regimental History shows name as BRAUND.

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