The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private H Poste

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Private Horace Edwin POSTE, G/7396, 3rd Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 4263, Royal Sussex Regiment), died Military Hospital, Shorncliffe, Kent,  14th July 1918, age 39.

Born Isfield, Sussex, son of the late Alfred and Emma Elizabeth Poste, of Isfield, Sussex.

1911 Census - 27 Wharf Street, Godalminhg, Surrey - Horace Poste, head, age 33, single, gardener domestic, born Isfield, Sussex.

1911 Census - Side View, Isfield, Uckfield, Sussex - Alfred Poste, head, age 64, married, bricklayers labourer, worker, born Barcombe, Sussex; Emma Poste, wife, age 63., married 41 years, 8 children, 7 still alive, born Fletching, Sussex; Henry Poste, son, age 23, single, gardener domestic, worker, born Isfield, Sussex.

Enlisted Uckfield, Sussex.

Next of Kin (sister) - Ethel Poste.

Buried in Isfield (St Margaret) Churchyard, In North East part. Sussex. Commemorated on War Memorial inside St Margaret of Antioch Church, Church Lane, Isfield, Sussex.

NOTE ; shown in Regimental History &   Soldiers Died in the Great War as POSTLE