The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private W Anstead

Private Walter ANSTEAD, G/16884, 10th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 2415, (H.C.) R.F.A.), killed in action, Flanders, France, 31st July 1917, age 19.

Born High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. Anstead, of 20, Temple St., High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.

1911 Census - 20, Temple St., High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire - Benjamin Anstead, age 34, married, French polisher, born High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire; Minnie Eliza Anstead, wife, age 34, married 10 years, 2 children, 1 still alive, born High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire; Walter Cheese, stepson, age 12, school, born High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire; Benjamin Anstead, son, age 1, born High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire; Sarah Cheese, mother in law, widow, age 69, born Flacknell Heath.

Enlisted High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.

Commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Panels 45 and 47, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

NOTE: Regimental History and Soldiers died in the Great War have service No. as G/16884. CWGC web site show service number as G/15884

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