The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Sergeant A Ashdown

Serjeant Albert ASHDOWN, G/378, "A" Company, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders, France, 15th October 1918, age 30.

Born 13th November 1887 December Quarter, Beckenham, Kent, son of John and Jemima Ashdown, of 7, Blakeney Rd., Beckenham, Kent. 12th February 1888, baptised at Beckenham Congregational Church.

1911 Census - 7, Blakeney Rd., Beckenham, Kent. - John Ashdown, head, age 68, married, road sweeper on private estate, born Cudham, Kent; Jemima Ashdown, wife, age 60, married 39 years, 10 children 7 still alive, born Norwood, Surrey; Albert Ashdown, son, age 23, single, cabinet maker, born Beckenham, Kent; Walter Ashdown, son, age 20, single, groundsman in private park, born Beckenham, Kent; Alice Hill, daughter, age 35, widow, married 1 year, 1 child still living, born Penge, Surrey; Harry Hill, grandson, age 9, born Camberwell, London.

Enlisted Bromley, Kent.

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

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