The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private H S Boakes

Photograph by Chris(tine) Eaton

Private Henry Silas "Harry" BOAKES, G/31818, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders, France, 27th August 1918.

Born Hartfield, Sussex, son of Henry Silas & Emily* Boakes, of Delaware, Edenbridge, Kent. * nee Upton

1911 Census - Hop Cottage, Hever - Henry Silas Boakes, head, age 49, married, farm labourer, born Cowden, Kent; Emily Boakes, wife, age 45, married 24 years, 10 children, all still alive, born Cowden, Kent; Grace Boakes, daughter, age 14, born Hartfield, Sussex; Henry Silas Boakes, son age 12, born Hartfield, Sussex; John Mathew Boakes, son, age 9, born Hartfield, Sussex; Frances Boakes, daughter, age 7, born Hartfield, Sussex; Dorothy Ethel Boakes, daughter, age 4, born Edenbridge, Kent; Edith Boakes, daughter, age 2, born Edenbridge, Kent; Edwin Boakes, boarder, age 21, single, cowman on farm, born London.

Enlisted Maidstone, Kent, resided Hever, Kent.

Buried at Peronne Road Cemetery, Maricourt, II.F.13., Somme, France. Commemorated on War Memorial, St Peters Church, Hever, Kent.

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