The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Second Lieutenant C H York

Inscription - "LOVED BY EVEREYONE"

Photograph by "Claude Laignel"

Second Lieutenant Charles Henry YORKE, 11th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, 7th October 1916, age 30.

Son of Edwin and Mary Alice Yorke, 13, Park Road, Forest Hill, London.

1911 Census - 63 Vancouver Road, Forest Hill, SE - Edwin Yorke, head, age 55, married, Colliery Agent, Colliery? Properties, worker, home, born Grantham, Lincolnshire; Mary Alice Yorke, wife, age 55, married 27 years, 4 children, a\ll still alive, born Runcorn, Cheshire; Violet Wyndham Yorke, age 26, single, at home, born Nottingham, Nottinghamshire; Charles Henry Yorke, son, age 25, single, Factors Agent, Coal Factors, worker, Travelling, born Watford, Hertfordshire; Bernard Malcolm Yorke, son, age 20, single, clerk, Coal Factors, worker, Office, born Watford, Hertfordshire; Roland Graham Yorke, son, age 18, Clerk, newspaper, Daily News, clerk, office, born Watford, Hertfordshire; Douglas George Knapp, boarder, age 39, single, printer, credit ????, worker, born Lee, Kent.

Buried at Warlencourt British Cemetery, VII. E. 21., France.

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