The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private W C Parker

Private William Clark PARKER, G/11688, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 1st July 1916.

Born Northfleet, Kent, son of Elizabeth Tremain, 50 Foord Street, Rochester, Kent. Stepfather Charles L Tremain.

Enlisted Gravesend, Kent, age 35 years & 322 days, height 5ft 4½ inches, weight 126lbs, tattoos both forearms. Resided 19 College Street, Northfleet, Rochester, Kent. Formerly labourer.

Home, 7th January 1916 to 18th May 1916; BEF, 19th May 1916 to 1st July 1916.

7th January 1916, enlisted; 9th January 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 12th January 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 19th May 1916, posted BEF & embarked; 2nd June 1916, 18 Infantry Base Depot, proceeded to the Front to join 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

25th August 1919, Statement of Relatives - Stepfather, Charles L Tremain, 50 Foord Street, Rochester, Kent; Own Mother, Elizabeth Tremain, age 69, 50 Foord Street, Rochester, Kent; Brothers - Edward Clinch Parker, 7 Glanville Road, Strood; Sisters - Florence M Noble, 7 Warner Street, Chatham, Kent.

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 11C, France.

London Gazette 31st July 1917.

SOLDIERS' BALANCES UNDISPOSED OF.

.In pursuance of "The Regimental Debts Act, 1893," notice is hereby given that there is available for distribution amongst the Next of Kin or others entitled the sum of money set opposite to the name of each of the deceased Soldiers named in the lists which are published with this notice in the London Gazette and the "Army List," and are also to be seen at the Regimental Depots throughout the United Kingdom.

Applications from persons supposing themselves entitled as Next of Kin should be addressed by letter to "The Secretary, War Office, Imperial Institute, South Kensington, London, S.W. 7, and marked outside "Effects."

R. H. BRADE. War Office, July 31, 1917.

List CCCCCV of the names of deceased Soldiers whose Personal Estate is held for distribution amongst the Next of Kin or others entitled. Effects 1916-1917.

Parker, W. C., Private, Royal West Kent Regiment. £0 18s 2d

London Gazette 23rd July 1918.

SOLDIERS' BALANCES UNDISPOSED OF.

1st Republication of List CCCCCV of the names of deceased Soldiers whose Personal Estate is held for distribution amongst the Next of Kin or others entitled. Effects 1916-1917.

Parker, W. C., Private, Royal West Kent Regiment. £0 18s 2d

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