The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private O F Axell

Photograph by Chris(tine) Eaton

Private Owen Fred AXELL, G/11188, 11th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, kiled in action, Flanders, France, 2nd September 1916, age 23.

Born Mayfield, Sussex, son of Owen Henry & Miriam Axell, of Wellbrook Cottage, Mayfield, Sussex.

1911 Census - Wellbrook Cottage, Mayfield, Sussex. - Owen Axell, head, age 47, married, waggoner, born Heathfield, Sussex; Miriam Axell, wife, age 42, married 21 years, 5 children, 4 still alive, born Mayfield, Sussex; William Fairbrother, boarder, age 71, widower, pensioner, born Wadhurst, Sussex; Owen Fred Axell, son, age 18, single, farm labourer, born Mayfield, Sussex; Edith Annie Axell, daughter, age 13, school, born Mayfield, Sussex; Dorothy Mary Axell, daughter, age 10, school, born Mayfield, Sussex; Gladys Ruth Axell, daughter, age 4, born Mayfield, Sussex; William Mepham, boarder, age 34, single, stockman, born Wadhurst, Sussex.

Enlisted Tunbridge Wells, Kent, age 22, height 5ft 7 inches, resided Wellbrook Cottage, Mayfield, Sussex. Formerly farm labourer.

Home 22nd November 1915 to 21st June 1916; BEF 22nd June 1916 to 2nd September 1916.

22nd November 1915, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 25th November 1915, posted 9th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 21st June 1916, posted BEF & 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 21st June 1916, embarked Folkestone; 21st June 1916, disembarked Boulogne; 22nd June 1916, arrived at 41st Infantry Base Depot, Etaples; 9th July 1916, to 40th Infantry Base Depot, from 41st & attached 22nd Manchester Regiment.

19th August 1919, Statement of Relatives - Father, Owen H Axell, Wellbrook Cottage, Mayfield; Sisters - Edith A Axell, age 21, Wellbrook Cottage, Mayfield, Dorothy M Axell, age 18, Wellbrook Cottage, Mayfield, Gladys R Axell, age 12, Wellbrook Cottage, Mayfield.

Buried at Delville Wood Cemetery, Longueval, Somme, France.

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