The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Second Lieutenant G B Hallowes

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Second Lieutenant Geoffrey Blackwood HALLOWES, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Frons, Aveyron, Midi-Pyrénées, France, 4th September 1916.

2nd September 1887, born Bath, Somerset.

27th November 1887, St Mary, Putney, Wandsworth, baptism of Geoffrey Blackwood Hallowes, son of Edward Price Blackwood, (merchant), & Amelia Millie Hallowes, 3 Ravenna? Road.

Educated Wellington College, Berkshire.

1911 Census - 91 Onslow Gardens, South Kensington, London, SW - Edward Hallowes, head, age 59, widower, wine merchant, employer, born Canterbury, Kent; Geoffrey Hallowes, son, age 23, single, commercial clerk, general merchants, worker, born Putney, Surrey; Anna Gibbins, house keeper, age 76, single, born Middlesex, London; Rose Knight, cook, age 41,single, domestic cook, born Chard, Somerset; Lucy Summers, domestic servant, age 32, single, parlour maid, born Cosham, Wiltshire; Edith Conway, domestic servant, age 32, single, domestic housemaid, born Middlesex, London; Ada Whiting, domestic servant, age 22, single, domestic housemaid, born Middlesex, London; Lizzie Wright, domestic servant, age 21, single, domestic housemaid, born Middlesex, London.

On the outbreak of the Great War he enlisted in the 20th. Royal Fusiliers (Public Schools Battalion) and was commissioned 1st January 1915, in the Royal West Kent Regiment. He never married.

13th November 1916, Probate - Geoffrey Blackwood Hallowes, of 91 Onslow Gardens, South Kensington, Middlesex. Second Lieutenant West Kent Regiment died 3rd September 1916, in France. Administration London 13th November to Edward Price Blackwood, wine merchant. Effects £37 14s 3d.

Buried at Guillemont Road Cemetery, III. F. 6., Guillemont, France.

London Gazette 30th July 1915.

The under mentioned to be Second Lieutenants (on probation). Dated 31st July, 1915.

Geoffrey Blackwood HALLOWES, 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

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