The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private H T Boyce

Private Henry Thomas BOYCE, G/4679, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, France and Flanders, 6th May 1915, age 20.

Born Sandhurst, Kent, son of Henry and Charlotte Boyce, of "Hallowdene," Sandhurst, Hawkhurst, Kent / Lossenham Lodge, Newenden, Kent.

1911 Census - Heronden Cottage, Sandhurst, Kent - Henry Boyce, head, age no known, married, farm labourer, born Newenden, Kent; Charlotte Boyce, wife, age 38, married 20 years, 5 children, all still alive, born Benenden, Kent; Henry Boyce, son, age 16, single, farm labourer, born Sandhurst, Kent; Herbert Boyce, son, age 11, school, born Sandhurst, Kent; Frederick Boyce, son, age 8, born Sandhurst, Kent; Mildred Boyce, daughter, age 5, born Sandhurst, Kent.

Enlisted Hastings, Sussex, age 20, height 5ft 9¾ inches. Resided Heronden Cottage, Sandhurst, Kent. Formerly carter.

23rd November 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 8th December 1914, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 22nd April 1915, posted BEF & 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

2nd August 1919, Statement of Relatives - Father, Henry Boyce, Lossenham, Newenden, Kent; Mother, Charlotte Boyce, Lossenham, Newenden, Kent; Brothers - Arthur William Boyce, age 28, 119 Heavy Battery, Rhine, Germany; Robert Edwin Boyce, age 20, Lossenham Lodge, Newenden, Kent; Frederick John Boyce, age 16?, Lossenham Lodge, Newenden, Kent; Edgar Charles Boyce, age 4, Lossenham Lodge, Newenden, Kent; Sisters - Mildred Jane Boyce, age 14, Lossenham Lodge, Newenden, Kent; Evelyn Joan Beaumont Boyce, age 2, Lossenham Lodge, Newenden, Kent; Grandparent - Sarah Ann Vine, Coopers Corner, Ide Hill, Sevenoaks, Kent ; Uncles / Aunts - William Vine, age 49, Sherbourne? Cottage, Upton Grey, Hampshire; Mrs A Gardener, age 44, Clifton Villa, Eastleigh, Hampshire; Herbert Vine, age 40, 28 Ulysses Road, West Hampstead, NW; Frederick Vine, age 39, 90 Goodwood Road, New Cross, SE; Florence May Ritchie, age 36, Manor Cottage, Great Billington, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire; Edgar Vine, age 33, Picketts Cottage, Ide Hill, Sevenoaks, Kent; Mildred Alice Vine, age 24, 22 Farningham Road, New Cross, SE; Thomas Boyce, Canada; Arthur Boyce, Canada; George Boyce, Benenden, Kent; Edgar Boyce, London; Mrs Ellen Relf, Sandhurst, Kent; Mrs Sarah Maynard, Frittenden, Kent; Mrs Elizabeth Avery, Headcorn, Kent; Mrs Eliza Lawrence, Horsemonden, Kent; Mrs Lucy Burt, Sandhurst, Kent.

Commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Panel 45 and 47, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Link to Newenden Roll of Honour

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