The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private L W Hayes

Photograph by "Steve Morris"

Private Lewis William HAYES, 200992, (TF/2661), 2nd/4th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action Egypt, 18th January 1918, age 20.

Son of William Lewis & Charlotte Hayes, of Brick Fields, Platt, Borough Green, Sevenoaks, Kent.

1911 Census - No.12 Whatcote Cottages, Platt, Borough Green, Sevenoaks, Kent - Charlotte Hayes, head, age 39, widow, married 19 years, 9 children, all still alive, born Castleacre, Norfolk; John Albert? Hayes, son, age 17, single, stone worker, quarry born Platt, Kent; Vincent Albert? Hayes, son, age 15, single, stone worker, quarry born Platt, Kent; Lewis William Hayes, son, age 13, school, born Platt, Kent; Charles Hayes, son, age 12, school, born Platt, Kent; Bertey Hayes, son, age 10, school, born Platt, Kent; Tom Hayes, son, age 1?, born Platt, Kent; Jane Mair Hayes, age 5, born Swanley, Kent; Dorothy Viovel Hayes, age 3, born Swanley, Kent; John Collins, lodger, age 16, single, labourer, farm, born Platt, Kent; Henry Arthur Collins, lodger, age 19, single, stone worker, quarry born Portfield, Hampshire.

Enlisted Tonbridge Kent. Resided Borough Green, Kent.

1st August 1915, posted Balkans Theatre of WAr.

Buried at Jerusalem War Cemetery, O. 102, Israel. and at Platt Memorial Village Hall. Platt, Kent.

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