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Private W H Burgess


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Private William Henry BURGESS, TF/1511, 1st/5th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died (of enteric contracted while on active service), Uttar Pradesh, India, 8th November 1915, age 21.

Born New Milton, Kent, son of William and Elizabeth Burgess, of 18, Wellington Road, Dartford, Kent. 


1911 Census - 18, Wellington Road, Dartford, Kent - William Burgess, head, age 44, married, railway porter, South Eastern & Chatham Railway, born Battale, Sussex; Elizabeth Burgess, wife, age 49, married 20 years, 4 children, all still alive, born Gravenhurst, Bedfordshire; George Burgess, son, age 19, single, prime cost clerk, engineering; born Eltham, Kent; Nellie Burgess, daughter, age 14, school, born Mottingham, Kent; William Burgess, son, age 17, single, motor fitting apprentice, born Eltham, Kent; Charles Burgess, son, age 11, school, born Mottingham, Kent.


Enlisted Dartford, Kent.

Buried in Jhansi Cantonment Cemetery, Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh, India,  Plot: Plot H. Grave 109.

Commemorated at Madras 1914-1918 War Memorial, Chennai, Face 20, India.


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