The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private R W Airey

Private Robert William AIREY, L/8091, 2nd Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died 19th July 1916 in Yarbaschin? Hospital as a Prisoner of War, with Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force.

Born Woolwich, Kent, son of Fanny Adams, 12 Brooke Street, Basingstoke, Hampshire.

Enlisted London.

6th February 1915, posted BEF.

Sisters, Louisa Goodison; Edith Simmons; Alice Harcombe?; Brother Charles Airey.

Buried at Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, XXI. R. 7. Iraq.

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