The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private W J Pearce

Inscription -

"NOT LOST BUT GONE BEFORE

AND TO BE WITH CHRIST

IS FAR BETTER"

Photograph by "Diane"

Private Walter James PEARCE, G/9406, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 8th October 1918, age 36.

Born Thanet, Kent, son of William and Liza Pearce.

5th April 1904, Christ Church, West Croydon, Surrey, Walter James Pearce, age 21, bachelor, grocers assistant, Northdown, Margate, father William James Pearce, farm labourer. married Lilian Blackmore, age 24, spinster, 26 Stanley Grove, Croydon, father Edwin Blacxkmore, Post Office Pensioner.

Children - Ernest Walter Pearce, born 18th December 1904;

1911 Census - 1 Sowell Street, Farm Cottage, St Peers, Thanet, Kent - Walter James Pearce, age 28, married, cowman of farm, worker, born West Northdown, Margate, Kent; Lilian Pearce, wife, married 7 years, *1 child still alive, born West Croydon.

*slept at 41 Canty (Canterbury?),Road, Margate, Kent.

Children - Walter D V Pearce, born 14th February 1917.

Enlisted Bromley, Kent. Resided Croydon, Surrey/ Church Cottage, Tong, Sittingbourne, Kent.

Buried at Anneux British Cemetery, III. C. 33., France.

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