The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private W E Campin

Private Walter Edward CAMPIN, G/24591, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 4560, Somerset Light Infantry), killed in action, Flanders France, 28th March 1918.

Born Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire, son of John Edward & Margaret Helen Campin, of Sheep St., Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire.

19th September 1880, Stow on the Wold, baptism of John Edward Campin, son of John Edward Campin, (painter) & Margaret Ellen Campin.

1911 Census - Park Street, Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire - John Edward Campin, head, age 56, married, house painter, born Lower Swell; Margaret Helen Campin, wife, age 50, married 32 years, 3 children 2 still alive, born Lower Swell; Walter Edward Campin, son, age 29, single, house painter, born Stow on the Wold; Emma Elizabeth Payton, boarder, age 57, widow, milliner, drapery, born Warwick; Harry Osborne, boarder, age 21, single, boot maker, born Worcester.

Enlisted Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire.

Commemorated at Pozieres Memorial, Panel 58 & 59, Somme, France.

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