The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private W Ashman

Private William ASHMAN, G/25944, 11th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, ( formerly 28082, Royal Fusiliers), killed in action, Flanders, France, 26th July 1917, age 39.

Born Kirtling, Cambridgeshire, son of Charles Ashman.

1911 Census - Woodditton, Newmarket, Cambridgeshire - Francis James Frost, head, age 47, married, horseman on farm, born Riasby, Suffolk; Elizabeth Frost, wife age 53, married 1 year, born Whitling?, Cambridgeshire; Harry Ashman, stepson, age 21, horseman on farm, born Woodditton, Cambridgeshire; Frederick Ashman, stepson, age 19, farm labourer, born Woodditton, Cambridgeshire; Hubert Ashman, stepson, age 14, farm labourer, born Woodditton, Cambridgeshire; William Ashman, boarder, age 30, gardener, born Woodditton, Cambridgeshire.

1915, December Quarter, Newmarket District, married Mary Ann Clements, 4, Cheveley Park, Newmarket, Cambridgeshire.

Enlisted Newmarket, Cambridgeshire, resided Cheveley, Cambridgeshire.

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

NOTE: Regimental History and Soldiers died in the Great War show service number as G/25944, CWGC web site show service number as G/25044.

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