The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private T W Apps

Photograph by "GeertB"

Private Thomas William APPS, G/5453, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, Flanders, France, 8th April 1916.

Born 1881, West Wickham, Kent.

4th August 1906, West Wickham, married Mabel Marden.

1911 Census - Rowes Farm, Hayes, Kent - Thomas William Apps, head, age 30, married, farm labourer, born West Wickham, Kent; Mabel Apps, wife, age 26, married 4 years, no children, born Horley, Surrey; Thomas Marden, brother in law, age 21, single, farm hand, born Alfriston, Sussex.

Home, 9th January 1915 to29th August 1915; BEF, 30th August 1915 to 8th April 1916.

Enlisted Bromley, Kent, age 34, height 5ft 9 inches, weight 140 lbs, scar front of both knees, resided Rowes Farm, Hayes, Kent. Formerly farm labourer.

9th January 1915, enlisted; 15th January 1915, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 20th January 1915, posted 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 30th August 1915, posted BEF; 6th April 1916, Wounded shell wound, left arm, right leg.

Mrs Apps remarried (1916, December Quarter, Croydon District), now Mrs M Bovill, 39 Northway Road, East Croydon, Surrey. Pension of 10 shillings a week awarded from 23rd October 1916.

Buried at Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension (Nord), II.D.211., Nord, France.

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