The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Second Lieutenant F C Westmacott

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Second Lieutenant Frederick Charles WESTMACOTT, Stanley Horace WEBB, 3rd Battalion, attached 11th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, 31st July 1917, age 19.

19th September 1883, Madeley, Shropshire, Walter Westmacott, married Helen Maria Maud Anstice.

Born St Germans, Cornwall, son of Canon Walter and Helen Maria Maud Westmacott, of The Sanctuary, Probus, Cornwall.

1891 Census - St Germans, Cornwall - Walter Westmacott, head, age 37, married, Clerk in Holy Order, Clergy, born Charleton, Oxfordshire; Helem M M Westmacott, wife, age 28, married, born  Madeley, Shropshire; John L Westmacott, son, age 6, son, born Menan, Tyrol; Horatio Westmacott, son, age 5, born Highbridge, Somerset; Gillian S Westmacott, daughter, age 4, born Highbridge, Somerset; Christian Westmacott, son, age 2, born Highbridge, Somerset; *Spencer Westmacott, son, age1, born Highbridge, Somerset; Blaudina S Bellamy, age 19, single, Governess School, born Devonport, Devomshire; Grace Murray, servant, age 42, single, head nurse, domestic, servant, Straunraer, Scotland; Emily Withers, servant,  age 36, single, cook, domestic servant, born Huntspill, Somerset; Hannah Story, servant, age 17, single, housemaid, servant, born Highbridge, Somerset; Ethel Bennett, age 16, servant, single, under nurse, domestic servant, born West Wend, Southampton.

1901 Census - St Germans, Cornwall - Walter Westmacott, head, age 47, married, Clergyman, Church of England, born Charleton, Oxfordshire; Helen M M Westmacott, wife, age 38, married, born  Madeley, Shropshire; Gillian S Westmacott, daughter, age 14, born Highbridge, Somerset; Christian Westmacott, son, age 12, born Highbridge, Somerset; Rhoda Westmacott, daughter, age 6, born St Germans, Cornwall; Peter S Westmacott, son, age 6, born St Germans, Cornwall; Wilfred A Westmacott, son, age 5, born St Germans, Cornwall; Frederick C, Westmacott, son, age 3, born St Germans, Cornwall; Dorothy M Westmacott, daughter, age 1, born St Germans, Cornwall; Oscar  son, age 7 months, born St Germans, Cornwall; Mary J Ellis, servant, age 36, single, cook domestic, born Plymouth, Devon; Judith Parry, servant age 26, single, nurse domestic, born Carnarvon, Wales; Emily Blatchford, servant, age 20, single, parlourmaid domestic, born Bermondsey, London; Alice Godfrey, servant, age 19, single, housemaid, domestic, born Edington, Somerset; Jane C Meddem, servant, age 17, under nurse domestic, born St Savan, Cornwall.

1911 Census - Marlborough College - Frederick Westmacott. Pupil, age 13. Pupil, Student, Marlborough College, born St Germans, Cornwall.

1911 Census - The Vicarage, St Germans, Cornwall - Walter Westmacott, head, age 57, married, Clergyman of Established Church, employed, born Charleton, Oxfordshire; Dorothy May Westmacott, daughter, age 11, born St Germans, Cornwall;  Mary Jane Westmacott, daughter, age 5, St Germans, Cornwall; Valentine De Block, governess, age 24, single, governess, worker, born France, French; Ethel Hilda Beer, servant, age 29, single, cook, domestic, worker, born Devonport, Devomshire; Emma Jane Marks, servant,  age 22, single, housemaid, domestic, worker, born Torpoint, Cornwall; Rhoda Maria Webber, servant, age 42, single, born Kenerford, Cornwall. 

1911 Census - Hotel Imperial, 121 & 122 Queens Gate, Kensington, London - Helen Maria Maud Westmacott, boarder, age 48, married 27 years, 13 children, all still alive, wife, born Madeley, Shropshire.

4th December 1916, posted BEF.

Commemorated at  Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Panel 45 and 47, Belgium.

*Brother - Lieutenant Spencer Ruscombe Westmacott, 2nd Battalion, attached 1st Battalion, Leinster Regiment, born 22nd January 1890, St Germans, Cornwall died 8th May 1915, age 25, Ypres, Belgium.

1911 Census - Military, India - Spencer Ruscombe Westmacott, Second Lieutenant, age 21, single, 2nd Battalion, Leinster Regiment, born St Germans, Cornwall.

Commemorated Panel 44, Ypres, Menin Gate memorial, Belgium.

Brothers -

Rupert Walter Westmacott (Captain Nigerian Political Service, (born 28th April 1892, St Germans, Cornwall  - died 1989)

Peter Germanus Westmacott (Brigadier Indian Army, OBE. (born 10th September 1894, St Germans, Cornwall  - died 1967)

Wilfred Appold Westmacott (Captain, MC( born 26th February 1896,  St Germans, Cornwall  - died 1964)