The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private J Cole

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Private Joshua COLE, L/10246, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 26th April 1915, age 23.

Born Ide Hill, Sevenoaks, Kent, son of Joshua and Esther Alice Cole, of 91, Boar Hill, Ide Hill, Sevenoaks, Kent.

1911 Census - 91 Hanging Bank, Boar Hill Cottage, Boar Hill, Ide Hill, Sevenoaks, Kent - Joshua Cole, head, age 49, married, bricklayer labourer, born Sundridge, Kent; Esther Alice Cole, wife, age 51, married 27 years, 6 children, all still alive, born Sundridge, Kent; Joshua Cole, son, age 19, single, farm labourer, born Sundridge, Kent; Walter Abraham Cole, son, age 14, labourer in gravelpit, born Sundridge, Kent.

Enlisted Sevenoaks, Kent, age 21 years & 11 months, height 5ft 8¼ inches, weight 139lbs, fresh complexion, blue eyes, light brown hair, several scar left of navel, mole right arm, scar base of left thumb, scar left side of jaw. Dark grey tweed suit, green cloth cap, white muffler, black boots. Formerly farm labourer, (ploughman).

Home 5th January 1914 to 7th November 1914; BEF 8th November 1914 to 3rd January 1915; Home 4th January 1915 to 21st April 1915; BEF 22nd April 1915 to 26th April 1915.

5th January 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 21st February 1914, awarded 3rd Class Certificate of Education; 26th February 1914.posted 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 19th August 1914, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 8th November 1914, posted BEF & 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 30th December 1914, 13 Field Ambulance JCT toe; 2nd January 1915, 13 General Hospital, frost bite, feet, to England; 20th February 1915, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 22nd April 1915, posted BEF & 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

10th June 1919, Statement of Relatives - Father, Joshua Cole, 91, Boar Hill, Ide Hill, Sevenoaks, Kent; Mother, E A Cole, 91, Boar Hill, Ide Hill, Sevenoaks, Kent; Brothers - Edwin Cole, age 34, 91, Boar Hill, Ide Hill, Sevenoaks, Kent; Walter Cole, age 22, 91, Boar Hill, Ide Hill, Sevenoaks, Kent; Sisters - E Esther Cole, age 32; Annie Cole, age 32; Emma Cole, age 29.

Commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Panel 45 & 47, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, and at St Marys Church, Ide Hill, Kent.

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