The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private L H Burgess

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Private Leonard Henry BURGESS, G/16997, 10th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died Flanders, France 22nd February 1917, age 22.

Born Eccles, Kent, son of Charles & Elizabeth Burgess, of 4, Vine Cottages, Bell Lane, Ditton, Maidstone, Kent.

1911 Census - The Square, Wouldham, Rochester - Charles Henry Burgess, head, age 69, married, labourer cement, cement industry, born Halling, Kent; Elizabeth Burgess, wife, age 63, married 17 years, 1 child, born Dartford, Kent; Leonard Henry Burgess, son, age 16, single, born Eccles, Kent.

Enlisted Chatham, Kent. Resided Wouldham, Kent.

Buried at Longuenesse (St Omer) Souvenir Cemetery, IV. B. 27.Pas de Calais, France. Commemorated War Memorial, Wouldham Kent.

Wouldham, Kent Village Memories, page 7.

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