The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private W Horsley

Private William HORSLEY, L/7381, 2nd Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died, Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, 19th August 1916.

Born Greenwich, Kent.

Enlisted New Cross, Kent.

20th March 1904, St Paul, Greenwich, William Horsley, age 19, bachelor, soldier, 3 Roan Place, Roan Street, father Thomas Horsley, labourer, married Ellen Marner, spinster, age 18, 3 Roan Place, Roan Street, father Walter Marner, stoker.

1st May 1904, St Paul, Greenwich, baptism of Ellen Elizabeth Horsley, born 11th April 1904, daughter of William, (soldier), & Ellen Marner Horsley, 22 Bridge Street.

1911 Census - Military India - William Horsley, Private, age 26, single, 2nd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, Soldier, born Greenwich, Kent.

6th February 1915, posted Balkans Theatre of War.

Buried at Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, XXI. D. 21., Iraq.

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