The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private S G Harling

Inscription - "THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD I SHALL NOT WANT"

Private Sydney George HARLING, G/15423, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 17th July 1917, age 28.

1888, born Merstham, Surrey, son of George & Kate Harling.

11th November 1888, St Katherine, Merstham, Surrey, baptism of Sydney George Harling, son of George, (railway porter), & Kate Harling.

1911 Census - 7 Manor Road, South Merstham, Surrey - George Harling, head, age 59, married, signalman, railway, worker, born West Peckham, Kent; Kate Harling, wife, age 54, married 35 years, 5 children, 4 still alive, born Thurnham, Kent; Sydney Harling, son, age 22, single, porter, railway, worker, born Merstham, Surrey; Edith Amy Harling, grand daughter, age 1, born Deal, Kent; James Gibbs, boarder, age 31, single, gardener domestic, worker, born Colworth, Sussex; Arthur George Linfield, boarder, age 32, single, bread making, baker, worker, born Storrington, Sussex.

Enlisted Redhill, Surrey.

Husband of Ann Harling, (nee Langridge) of 83, Salehurst Road, Crofton Park, London.

16th October 1917 Probate - Sydney George Harling, of 83 Salehurst Road, Crofton Park, Kent, Private Royal West Kent Regiment, died 17th July 1917 in France. Probate London 16th October to Ann Harling widow, Effects £ 145.

Buried at Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery, V. C. 4., Harcourt, France.

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