The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private T J Holmden

Photograph by "Gunner"

Private Thomas James HOLMDEN, G/2207, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 13th July 1916, age 33.

Born Kemsing, Sevenoaks, Kent, son of James & Elizabeth Holmden.

1911 Census - Noah's Ark, Kemsing, Seal, Sevenoaks, Kent - Frederick James Forder, head, age 43, general labourer, worker, born Hampstead, Dorchester; Eleanor Forder, wife, age 22, married 2 years, 2 children, both still alive, born Noah's Ark, Kent; Alice Mary Forder, daughter, age 2, born Noah's Ark, Kent; Amy Freda Forder, daughter, age 3 months, born Noah's Ark, Kent; Thomas James Holmden, boarder, age 29, single, platelayer, South East & Chatham Railway, worker, born Malt House, Kemsing, Kent.

7th February 1914, St Marys Parish Church, Kemsing, Sevenoaks, Kent, married Edith Annie Burr, of Lunsford Farm, Larkfield, Maidstone, Kent.

Children - Phyllis Sylvia Pearl Holmden, born 24th February 1915, Sevenoaks, Kent.

Enlisted Tonbridge, Kent, age 31, height 5ft 7½ inches, fresh complexion, blue eyes, light brown hair. Resided Heaverham Cottages, Heaverham, Kemsing, Kent / Malt House, Kemsing near Sevenoaks, Kent. Formerly farm labourer.

Home, 7th September 1914 to 25th July 1915; BEF, 26th July 1915 to 13th July 1916.

7th September 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 10th September 1914, posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 26th July 1915, posted BEF;

5th February 1917, pension of 15/- a week awarded to widow and one child.

1917 December, Sevenoaks Registration District, Edith A Holmden, married Albert E Holcombe.

10th July 1919, Statement of Relatives - Widow, Edith Annie Holcombe, Lunsford Farm, Larkfield, near Maidstone, Kent; Child - Phyllis Sylvia Pearl Holmden, 24th February 1915, Lunsford Farm, Larkfield, near Maidstone, Kent; Brothers, none; Sisters - Amy Holmden, age 37, 348 Manchester Road, Cubitt Town, Poplar, E14.

Buried at Delville Wood Cemetery, XXX. K. 7., Longueval, France.

Commemorated on Kemsing War Memorial.

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