The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private J H Amos

Private Joseph Herbert AMOS, G/858, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Loos, France, 7th October 1915, age 24.

Born 21st February 1891, Gravesend, Kent, son of John Thomas & Sarah Amos, of 4, Swan Yard, Gravesend, Kent.

11th May 1913, St Andrews, Hoyton, married Rachell Ann Hatton, (deceased) of 8, Ware St., Kingsland Road, Shoreditch, London.

Children, Francis Joseph, born 20th December 1913, Shoreditch, deceased; Rachel Minnie, born 28th June 1915, Shoreditch.

Enlisted, Gravesend, Kent, age 23, height 5ft 4 inches, weight, 120lbs, blue ryes, brown hair, tattoo on left forearm. Formerly seaman.

Home 31st August 1914 to 31st May 1915; BEF, 1st June 1915 to 7th October 1915.

31st August 1914, enlisted; 1st September 1914, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 3rd September 1914, posted 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 21st September to 27th September 19174, absent; 21st January 1915 to 29th January 1915, In Arrest. Tried by DCM for (1) when on active service using insubordinate language to his superior officer (2) resisting an escort whose duty it was to have him in charge. Sentenced to 42 days detention with a remission of 14 days; 20th Mat 1915 to 25th March 1915, absent;

29th March 1915, memo from Police Inspector Old Street, Police Station to Officer Commanding, 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment - I beg to report having made enquiries at No.8 Ware Street, Hoyton and was informed by Mrs Rachel Ann Amos, wife of the above , that her husband had left that address about 2pm on Thursday 25th inst. to rejoin his regiment, and has not since been seen. Mrs Amos produced a letter which she had received from her husband stating that he had arrived at Aldershot at 7.30pm 25th inst. and which bore the postmark for that date.

1st June 1915, posted BEF.

27th May 1916, widow awarded a pension of 15 shillings a week for herself and one child, from 5th June 1916.

Commemorated at Loos Memorial, Panel 95 TO 97, Pas de Calais, France & at Christ Church, Milton-next-Gravesend, Kent

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