The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private R Fry

Private Richard FRY, G/28523, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly M/346849, R.A.S.C.M.T.), killed in action, Flanders France, death presumed on or since, 21st March 1918.

1883, born Wellington, Somerset, son of William & Ellen Fry (nee King, died 1915).

1903, March Quarter, Pontypridd, Richard Fry married Nellie Maria Bishop.

Child - Violet Elizabeth Fry, born 12th September 1906, Pontypridd, Glamorgan

* 1911 Wales Census - 57 Coedpenmaen Road, Pontypridd, South Wales - Richard King, head, age 29, married, labourer, assistant brewer, brewery works, born Wellington, Somerset; Nellie Fry, wife, age 26, married 8 years, 2 children, 1still alive, born Bideford, Devonshire; Violet E King, daughter, age 4, school, born Pontypridd, Glamorgan; Frank Bishop, boarder, age 23, single, banksman, colliery, born Bideford, Devonshire.

* Ellen Fry did not marry William King until 3rd August 1885.

Enlisted Grove Park, Kent. Resided Pontypridd, Wales.

Commemorated at Pozieres Memorial, Panel 58 and 59, Somme, France.

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