The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Second Lieutenant E N Winch

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Second Lieutenant Edward Nightingale WINCH, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, 9th October 1918, age 39.

Son of Charles and Sarah Winch,  Rochester, Kent.

23rd August 1906, Dulwich, London, SE, married Florence Charlotte Hull, spinster, "Ivydene," Forest Hill Road, Forest Hill, London.

Children - Lorna Winch, born 20th February 1909, Camberwell;

1911 Census - 15 Mundania Road, Forest Hill Road, Honor Oak, SE - Edward Nightingale Winch, head, age 31, married, Insurance Clerk, worker, born Rochester, Kent; Florence Charlotte Winch, wife, age 36, married 4 years, 1 child, still alive, born Camberwell, London; Lorna Winch, daughter, age 2, born Camberwell, London; Agnes Jane Hull,  boarder, (wife's sister), age 46, single, music teacher, own account, born Holborn, London.

Children - Norman Edward Winch, born 8th August 1913, Forest Hill, Kent.

Enlisted New Court, St Swithins Lane, age 35 years & 11 months, height 5ft 9½ inches, weight 142lbs. Resided Roslyn, Netherby Road, Forest Hill, SE. Formerly insurance clerk, Royal Exchange Assurance,

26th November 1915. enlisted; 27th November 1915, to Army Reserve; 20th January 1917, mobilized & posted 28th Battalion, The London Regiment, (Artist Rifles), Service No.765075; 30th October 1917, discharged & appointed commission Royal West Kent Regiment.

19th April 1918, posted BEF.

Buried at Masnieres British Cemetery, I. B. 17., Marcoing, France.

London Gazette 29th November 1917.

The under mentioned cadets to be temporary 2nd Lieutenants (attached). -  31 October 1917: Edward Nightingale Winch.

London Gazette 24th June 1918.

The under mentioned temporary 2nd Lieutenants (attached), unless otherwise stated, are transferred to Service Battalion, with seniority as shown against their names:

Royal West Kent Regiment. - E N Winch. 31st October 1917.

OBITUARY

2nd Lieutenant Edward Nightingale WINCH. 8th Service Battalion, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Born 12th December, 1879.

He went into the Royal Exchange Assurance on leaving School and joined up under the "Derby Scheme", entering the ranks of the Artists Rifles, 28th Battalion London Regiment, in February, 1917. He was gazetted to a temporary commission in the Royal West Kent Regiment in October, 1917, and proceeded to France in the following April, taking part in minor engagements in the Lens district, until ordered to march on Cambrai.

He was killed by a shell during the attack on the village of Awoingt on 9th October, 1918. He leaves a widow and one son.