The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

 Private W P E Holness


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Private William Percy Edward HOLNESS, G/31471, 7th Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 61578, Middlesex Regiment), killed in action, Flanders France, 27th August 1918, age 18.

Born Gillingham, Kent, son of Norris Percy and Ellen J Holness, of "Jasmine," Dargetts Road, Walderslade, Chatham, Kent.


1911 Census - 63 King Street, Gillingham, Kent - Norris Percy Holness, head, age 38, married, skilled labourer, Chatham Dockyard, worker, born Sturry, Kent; Ellen Holness, wife, age 39, married 14 years, 6 children, 2 still alive, born Minster Thanet, Kent; William Percy Edward Holness, son, age 11, school, born Gillingham, Kent; Alfred Holness, son, age 2, born Gillingham, Kent.


Enlisted Maidstone, Kent.

Commemorated at Vis-en-Artois Memorial, Panel 7, France.


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