The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private T H Hackney

Private Thomas Henry HACKNEY, G/24330, 10th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly G/18139, Lancers), killed in action, Flanders France, 31st July 1917, age 20.

Born Gresford, Flintshire, son of Thomas & Annie Elizabeth Hackney, of Parkgate Road, Mollington, Chester.

1911 Census - Grange Cottage, Mollington, Chester - Thomas Hackney, head, age 33, married, stockman on farm, agriculture, worker, born Mollington, Chester; Annie Elizabeth Hackney, wife, age 35, married 14 years, 5 children, 4 still alive, born Wrentham, Denbighshire; Thomas Henry Hackney, son, age 13, school, born Gresford, Denbighshire; William John Hackney, son, age 10, school, born Aston, Cheshire; Violet Hackney, daughter, age 6, born Mollington, Chester; James Hackney, son, age 2, born Mollington, Chester.

Enlisted Curragh Camp, Ireland. Resided Willaston, Cheshire.

Commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Panel 45 and 47, Belgium.

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