The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private H S Quaife


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Private Herbert Samuel QUAIFE, G/9680, 11th Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders, France, 21st June 1916.

Born Camberwell, Surrey, son of Herbert Samuel Quaife,


1911 Census - 3 Riddell Street, Southampton Street, Peckham, Camberwell, SE. - Herbert Quaife, head, age 29, married, house painter, worker, born Camberwell, London; Gertrude Quaife, wife, age 29, married 5 years, 2 children, both still alive, born Kent; Bert Quaife, son, age 4, born Camberwell, London; Herbert Quaife, son, age 2, born Peckham, London.


31st August 1911, St Luke's, Peckham, Southwark, Herbert Samuel Quaife, age 29, bachelor, hawker, 8 Hazlemere? Road, Peckham, father, Herbert Samuel Quaife, carpenter, married Gertrude Binstead, age 29, spinster, 8 Hazlemere? Road, Peckham, father, James Binstead, farrier?

Children - Martin Conlon Quaife, stepchild, born 21st September 1906, Camberwell; Herbert Samuel George Quaife Binstead, born 19th September 1908, Camberwell; Mabel Florence Louisa Quaife Binstead, born 17th August 1911, Camberwell; Nellie Gertrude Quaife, born 26th January 1915, Camberwell.

Formerly served in 3rd Battalion, East Surrey.

Enlisted Lewisham, SE, age 33 years & 149 days, height 5ft 1 inch, weight 112lbs, tattoo marks on both forearms.  Resided 2 Hatcham Rd, Old Kent Road, Peckham, SE. / 166 Neate Street, Camberwell; 179 Cator Street, Peckham, SE / 29 Cronin Road, Peckham, SE. Formerly hawker.

Home, 21st August 1915 to 2nd May 1916; BEF, 3rd May 1916 to 21st June 1916.

21st August 1915, enlisted & posted 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 23rd September 1915, Catford, absent from 8.30am until reporting himself at 8.30am 25th September 1915, admonished and forfeits 3 days pay; 18th February 1916, Aldershot, overstaying his pass from 12.00noon until reporting himself at 1.30pm on 24th February, admonished & forfeits 7 days pay; 17th March 1916, Aldershot, being drunk in the barrack room about 10.30pm, admonished; 26th March 1916, forfeits 7 days pay for absence; 2nd May 1916, Southampton, embarked; 3rd May 1916, posted BEF; 3rd May 1916, Havre, disembarked; 20th May 1916, in the field, absent from billeting area without a pass, 10 days confined to barracks.

8th January 1917, pension of 22/6 a week awarded to widow and four children.

Buried at Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery. D. 8., Belgium.


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