The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private W A H Homewood

Photograph by "LESUEUR Dominique"

Private William Albert Henry HOMEWOOD, G/25367, 11th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds received in action, at No.1 Australian General Hospital, Rouen, Flanders France, 25th September 1917, age 29.

1st January 1888, born Eastbourne, Sussex / Willingdon, Sussex, son of William & Jeanette Ann Homewood.

Educated St Andrews School, Eastbourne, Sussex.

1911 Census - 11 Kilda Street, Eastbourne, Sussex - William Homewood, head, age 50, married, carter, builder, worker, born Buxted, Sussex; Janet Homewood, wife, age 45, married 27 years, 10 children, 8 still alive, born Lewes, Sussex; William Homewood, son, age 23, single, drapers porter, worker, born Eastbourne, Sussex; Ernest Homewood, son, age 15, single, drapers porter, worker, born Eastbourne, Sussex; Arthur Homewood, son, age 10, scholar, born Eastbourne, Sussex; Frank Homewood, son, age 7, scholar, born Eastbourne, Sussex; Jessie Homewood, son, age 2, born Eastbourne, Sussex; Arthur Collins, boarder, age 18, single, drapers porter, worker, born Bethnal Green, London; Edward Stoneham, boarder, age 50, general labourer, worker, born Brighton, Sussex.

26th December 1914, Eastbourne, Sussex, married Kathleen Fanny Powell, (daughter of William Isaac Powell), of 46a Ocklynge Road, Eastbourne, Sussex / Howard Hotel, Howard Square, Eastbourne, Sussex.

Child - Kathleen Hilda May Homewood, born 12th April 1916.

Enlisted 27th January 1917, Eastbourne, Sussex.

Buried at St Sever Cemetery Extension, P. III. I. 10B., Rouen, France. Commemorated Eastbourne Roll of Honour

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