The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private H J Booker

Photograph by "Len"

Private Hercules Joseph BOOKER, G/962, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 9th October 1915.

Born Buxted, Uckfield, Sussex, son of William & Hannah Booker, Western Road, Jarvis Brook, Sussex.

1911 Census - Western Road, Jarvis Brook, Sussex - William Booker, head, age 61, married, pimp maker, own account, at home, born High Hurstwood, Buxted Sussex; Hannah Booker, wife, age 62, married 41 years, 8 children, 5 still alive, born Fletching, Sussex; Hercules Joseph Booker, age 31, single, coal porter, born High Hurstwood, Buxted Sussex; Benjamin Booker, son, age 28, single, stoker on traction engine, born High Hurstwood, Buxted Sussex; Joseph Booker, son, age 24, single, farm labourer, High Hurstwood, Buxted Sussex.

Enlisted Tunbridge Wells, Kent, age 34, height 5ft 3¾ inches, fresh conplexion, blue eyes, fair hair. Formerly labourer.

Home 3rd September 1914 to 31st May 1915; BEF 1st June 1915 to 9th October 1915.

3rd September 1914, enlisted; 6th September 1914, posted 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment;

30th June 1919, Statement of Relatives - Father, William Booker, Western Road, Jarvis Brook, Sussex; Mother, Hannah Booker, Western Road, Jarvis Brook, Sussex; Brothers - George Booker, age 42; Benjamin Booker, age 36, Western Road, Jarvis Brook, Sussex; Sister - Elizabeth Webb, age 38, address unknown.

Buried at Sailly-Labourse Communal Cemetery, M. 9. Pas de Calais, France.

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