The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private P J Leete

Inscription - "FOR HIS KING AND COUNTRY HE HAS ANSWERED THE ROLL CALL OF HEAVEN"

Photograph by "GeertB"

Private Percy John LEETE, G/30972, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly Middlesex Regiment, Service No.43194 / West Kent Yeomanry, Service No.2291,), killed in action, Flanders France, 30th April 1918, age 21.

Born Tunbridge Wells, Kent, youngest son of George and Katherine Stoneham Leete, of 3, Murray Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

1901 Census - 3, Murray Road, Mount Sion, Tunbridge Wells, Kent - George Leete, head, age 39, married, coachman livery, groom, born Chatham, Kent; Katherine S Leete, wife, age 45, married, born Hastings, Sussex; Mary E Leete, daughter, age 13, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Violet A Leete, daughter, age 11, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent; George H Leete, son, age 6, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Percy John Leete, son, age 4, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

1911 Census - 3, Murray Road, Mount Sion, Tunbridge Wells, Kent - George Leete, head, age 49, married, coachman, born Chatham, Kent; Kathrine Stoneham Leete, wife, age 55, married 24 years, 5 children, 4 still alive, born Hastings, Sussex; Percy John Leete, son, age 14, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

Enlisted Maidstone, Kent.

Buried at Tannay British Cemetery, Plot 2. Row A. Grave 3, Thiennes, France. Commemorated on Tunbridge Wells War Memorial.

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