The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private H C Carter

Private Hector Charles CARTER, G/28723, "D" Company, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 25th April 1918, age 19.

Born Southend on Sea, Essex, son of Joseph and Selina Carter, of 1, Surrey View, Rowledge, Farnham, Surrey.

1911 Census - Holt Pound, Farnham, Surrey - Joseph Carter, head, age 44, married, labourer for rag & bone merchant, born Wickford, Essex; Selina Carter, wife, age 41, married 23 years, 6 children, 2 still living, born Halstead, Essex; Hector Carter, son, age 12, school, born Southend, Essex; Sidney Carter, son, age 9, school, born Southend, Essex; Arthur Bunton, father in law, age 70, widower, manufacturer of pots, born Coggeshall, Essex; May Elsley, visitor, age 19, domestic housemaid, born Hastings, Sussex.

Enlisted Guildford, Surrey. Resided Rowledge, Surrey.

Commemorated at Pozieres Memorial, Panel 58 & 59, Somme, France.

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