The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private H N Browning

Private Harold Norman BROWNING, G/18420, 11th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 20th December 1916, age 21.

Son of William and Harriott Browning, of Herne Common, Herne, Kent.

3rd November 1895, Herne, Kent, baptism of Harold Norman Browning, son of William John and Harriett Browning.

1911 Census - Herne Common, Herne, Kent - William John Browning, head, age 55, married, coachman, born Elmstead, Kent; Harriott Browning, wife, age 47, married 25 years, 11 children, 4 still living, monthly nurse, born Elham, Kent; Harold Norman Browning, son, age 15, golf caddy, born Herne, Kent; William Leslie Browning, son, age 11, school, born Herne, Kent; Elsie Rosa Browning, daughter, age 8, school, born Herne, Kent; Leslie Harold Browning, son, age 1, born Herne, Kent; Lilian Darby, boarder, age 33, single, charwoman, born Herne, Kent; Mary Darby, boarder, age 10 months, born Herne, Kent; Henry Hinge, boarder, age 50, single, farm labourer, born Herne, Kent.

Enlisted Herne Bay, Kent, age 19, height 5ft 5½ inches, impediment in speech. Resided Herne Common, Kent.

Home 16th November 1914 to 20th September 1916, BEF 21st September 1916 to 20th December 1916.

16th November 1914, enlisted, & posted 2/1st Battalion, Royal East Kent Mounted Rifles, 2231; 11th June 1915, transferred to 4/1st Battalion, Royal East Kent Mounted Rifles; 31st July 1915, posted 45th Provisional Battalion; 21st September 1916, embarked; 22nd September 1916, 38 Infantry Base Depot, France; 11th October 1916, transferred to 4th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, posted 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 14th October 1916, joined Battalion In the Field

15th September 1919, Statement of Relatives - Father, William John Browning, Braggs Lane, Herne near Canterbury; Mother, Harriott Browning, Braggs Lane, Herne near Canterbury; Brother - William Leslie Browning, age 19, Braggs Lane, Herne near Canterbury; Sisters - Mary Elizabeth Beechman?, age 31, Herne Common, Herne; Elsie Rosa Browning, age 16, Herne Common, Herne.

Buried at Spoilbank Cemetery, I.N.6., Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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