The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Second Lieutenant F A Snelgrove

Photograph by "Len"

Second Lieutenant Frederick Augustus SNELGROVE, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, 24th August 1918, age 33.

Born at Warminster, Dorset, son of William & Fanny Snelgrove.

25th March 1888, Norton Bavant, Wiltshire, baptism of Frederick Augustus Snelgrove, son of William, (labourer), & Fanny Snelgrove.

1911 Census - 18 Norton Bavant, Warminster, Wiltshire - William Snelgrove, head, age 66, farm labourer, worker, born Boreham, Warminster, Wiltshire; Fanny Snelgrove, wife, age 62, married 44 years, 10 children, all still alive, born Chitterne, Wiltshire; Frederick Snelgrove, son, age 23, single, chauffeur, born Norton Bavant, Warminster; George Snelgrove, age 92, widower, 2 children, Old Age Pensioner.

1917 December Tonbridge Registration District, married Grace Hilda Fitch, 198, Upper Grosvenor Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

Enlisted & posted Royal Berkshire Regiment, Service No.14297, Lance Corporal / Corporal; 19th September 1915, posted BEF; 17th December 1917, commissioned & posted Royal West Kent Regiment.

Buried Meaulte Military Cemetery, F. 14., France.

NOTE: 2nd Lieut. Snelgrove was one of 18 members of the 6th Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment who were killed on 24 August 1918. All are now buried in Meaulte Military Cemetery.

London Gazette 18th January 1918.

War Office, 18th January, 1918. REGULAR FORCES.

The under mentioned Cadets to be temporary 2nd Lieutenants, attached: 18 December 1917:

Royal West Kent Regiment - Frederick Augustus Snelgrove.

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