The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment
Private T A V Oakes
Private Theodore Albert Victor OAKES, S/8889, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 18th April 1915, age 17.
2nd October 1896, born Bermondsey, SE, son of Benjamin and Alice Oakes, of 18, Lamerton Street, Deptford, London.
21st October 1896, All Saints, Rotherhithe, Southwark, baptism of Theodore Albert Victor Oakes, son of Benjamin, (labourer), and Alice Oakes, 9 Claremont Place.
1911 Census - 44 Watergate Street, Deptford, Rotherhithe - Benjamin Oakes, ahead, age 48 married, labourer, dock, worker, born Rotherhithe, London; Alice Oakes, wife, age 37, married 22 years, 5 children, 4 still alive, laundry, worker, at home, born Bermondsey, London; William Oakes, son, age 20, single, labourer, dock, worker, born Rotherhithe, London; Rose Oakes, daughter, age 16, single, tin box sorter, worker, born Bermondsey, London; Albert Oakes, son, age 14, born Rotherhithe, London.
Entry Crossed out - Mable Oakes, daughter, age 18, single, tin sorter, servant, worker, born Bermondsey, London.
Enlisted New Cross, SE.
12th March 1915, posted BEF.
Commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Panel 45 and 47, Belgium.
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