The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private L A Buxton

Photograph by "Jofen"

Private Leslie Arthur BUXTON, G/9444, 11th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 15th September 1916, age 20.

Born Greenwich, SE, son of Arthur and Anne (Alice) Mary Buxton, of 77, Burnt Ash Road, Lee, London.

1911 Census - 2 Southbrook Road, Lee, SE - Albert Arthur Buxton, head, age 44, married, Civil Service Clerk, (Second Division), General Post Office, born Woolwich, Kent; Alice May Buxton, wife, age 43, married 20 years, 5 children, all still alive, born Greenwich, Kent; Jessie May Buxton, daughter, age 18, single, commercial clerk, oil refiners, born Greenwich, Kent; Leslie Arthur Buxton, son, age 15, shipping clerk, shippers, born Greenwich, Kent; Stanley Charles Buxton, son, age 11, scholar, born Greenwich, Kent; Daisy Catherine Buxton, daughter, age 5, born Greenwich, Kent; Reginald Albert Buxton, son, age 1, born Lewisham, Kent.

Enlisted Lewisham, SE, age 19 years & 270 days, height 5ft 8¾ inches, weight 120lbs. Formerly clerk.

7th August 1915, enlisted & posted 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 6th July 1916, 138 Field Ambulance, synovitis, trauma; 7th July 1916, 139 Field Ambulance, synovitis, right knee; 13th July 1916, to Duty; 15th September 1916, posted missing.

Buried at Bulls Road Cemetery, II.J.12., Somme, France.

NOTE: Regimental History & Soldiers Died in the Great War show rank as Private, CWGC website show it as Lance Corporal.

This page was last updated on 09-Oct-2017.