The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private S H Potter

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Private Sidney Henry POTTER, G/8144, 11th Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 7th October 1916, age 33.

Born Deptford, SE, son of the late Rufus and Alice Potter.

2nd August 1908, Christchurch, Camberwell, Sidney Potter, age 25, bachelor, bleacher, 20 Edwards Road, father Rufus Potter, platelayer, married Theresa Adelaide Millington, age 20, spinster, 20 Edwards Road, father John Millington, deceased, carpenter.

Children - Dorothy Adelaide Potter, born 15th April 1909;

1911 Census - 8, Blockhouse Street, Canterbury Road, Hatcham, London SE - Sidney Henry Potter, head, age 27, married, packer & sorter in dyers & cleaners, worker, born Nunhead, London; Theresa Adelaide Potter, wife, age 22, married 2 years, 1 child, born Deptford, London; Dorothy Adelaide Potter, daughter, age 2, born Deptford, London.

Children - Pansy Irene Potter, born 4th September 1915.

Enlisted Deptford, SE.

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 11C, France.