The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private S Bowles

Photograph by Chris(tine) Eaton

Private Stephen BOWLES, G/4414, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, France and Flanders, on or since, 22nd July 1916.

Born Dartford, Kent.

12th July 1909, Dartford, married Emily Jane Pomfrey, spinster.

Children - Annie Ruth Bowles, born 13th September 1910, Dartford, Kent; Thomas Stephen Bowles, born 21st February 1915, Dartford, Kent.

1911 Census - 11 Plough Court, Waterside, Dartford, Kent - Stephen Bowles, head age 21, married, cowman on farm, born Dartford, Kent; Emily Jane Bowles, wife, age 19, married 2 years, 1 child, still alive, born not known; Annie Ruth Bowles, daughter, age 6months, born Dartford, Kent.

Enlisted Woolwich, Kent, age 24, height 5ft 4¼ inches, weight 127lbs, mole above navel. Resided 6 Plough Court, Lower Waterside, Dartford, Kent / 6 Waterside Street, Dartford, Kent. Formerly labourer in flour mills.

Home 21st January 1915 to 28th April 1915; BEF 29th April 1915 to 21st January 1916; Home 22nd January 1916 to 14th March 1916; BEF 15th March 1916 to 22nd July 1916.

21st January 1915, enlisted; 22nd January 1915, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 30th January 1915, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 10th March 1915, Chatham, parading with dirty equipment after being ordered to clean it, 4days confined to Barracks; 29th April 1915, posted BEF & 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 30th April 1915, landed 5 Infantry Base Depot; 3rd May 1915, joined Battalion; 21st November 1915, synovitis knee, to duty "D" Company; 9th December 1915, 15 Field Ambulance, JCT knee; 18th December 1915, 21 Casualty Clearing Station, JCT knee; 22nd December 1915, No.1. Ambulance Train; 20th January 1916, JCT leg & to England; 22nd January 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 22nd January 1916 to 2th February 1916, 2nd Southern General Hospital, Southmead, Bristol, abrasion? of knee; 11th March 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 15th March 1916, posted BEF & 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 16th March 1916, landed 5 Infantry Base Depot; 3rd April 1916, joined Battalion, "B" Company; 22nd July 1916, posted missing.

26th March 1917, pension of 22/11 a week awarded to widow and two children.

Buried at Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, IX.H.12., Somme, France.

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