The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private R Blundell

Photograph by "Steve N"

Private Robert BLUNDELL, G/3904, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders, France, posted missing 18th November 1916, age 21.

Born Shoreham, Kent, son of Ernest and Mary E Blundell, of Station Road, Halstead, Sevenoaks, Kent.

1911 Census - Station Road, Halstead, Sevenoaks, Kent - Ernest Blundell, head, age 46, married, farm labourer, born Shoreham; Mary Blundell, wife, age 47, married 21 years, 8 children, all still alive, born Halstead; Thomas Blundell, son, age 19, single, unemployed farm labourer, born Shoreham; Richard Blundell, son, age 17, single, kennel boy, born Shoreham; Robert Blundell, son, age 15, single, unemployed, born Shoreham; Edward Blundell, son, age 14, born Shoreham; William Blundell, son, age 11, school, born Shoreham; Rose Blundell, daughter, age 8, school, born Shoreham; Charles Blundell, son, age 5, school, born Shoreham.

Enlisted Bromley, Kent, age 19, height 5ft 9¼ inches, weight 136lbs, dark complexion, brown eyes, dark brown hair. Resided Halstead, Kent. Formerly farm labourer.

Home 19th September 1914 to 24th August 1915; BEF 25th August 1915 to 18th November 1916.

19th September 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 17th October 1914, appointed unpaid Lance Corporal; 24th October 1914, posted 9th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 25th August 1915, posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment ; 18th November 1916, posted missing.

18 June 1919, Statement of Relatives - Father, E Blundell; Mother, M E Blundell; Brothers - Thomas Henry Blundell, age 27, in Canada; Richard James Blundell, age 25, Station Road, Halstead; Edward Ernest Blundell, age 22, serving in Russia; William George Blundell, age 19, Chippenham Hotel, Maida Hill, London; Charles Alfred Blundell, age 14, Station Road, Halstead; Sisters - Emma Mary Blundell, age 29, Mowbray, Bickling ????, Bromley, Kent; Rose Annie Blundell, age 16, Mowbray, Bickling ????, Bromley, Kent.

Buried at Stump Road Cemetery, Grandcourt, C.17., Somme, France.

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