Second Lieutenant Kenneth SHERIFF, 3rd Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (attached 2nd Border Regiment),  died of wounds, 23rd June 1915, age 19.

Born at Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire, son of James and Mary Sheriff, of The Elms, Wisborough Green, Sussex.

1911 Census - School Sanitorium, Rugby - Kenneth Sheriff, Patient, age 15, single, school, born Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire.

Buried at Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, II. A. 33. France.

London Gazette 31st October 1914.

The under mentioned Cadets and ex Cadets of the Officers Training Corps to be Second Lieutenants, on probation. Dated 1st November, 1914.

Kenneth Sheriff, 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

London Gazette 8th June 1915.

The under mentioned Second Lieutenants (on probation) are confirmed in their Rank.

3rd Battalion, The Royal West Kent Regiment. Kenneth Sheriff.

OBITUARY

Second Lieutenant Kenneth Sherriff - 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, The Royal West Kent Regiment.
Kenneth Sheriff was the second son of James Sheriff, sometime Tea Planter in Ceylon, of Crogen Hall, Llandrillo, Merionethshire, and of Mary his wife.

He entered the School in 1909. He was in the Gymnasium VIII in 1912 and 1913, and Captain in the latter year. He represented the School in Gymnastics at Aldershot in the Spring of 1914, and left at the end of that term.

In July, 1914, he matriculated at Birmingham University, and received a Commission in the Special Reserve of the West Kent Regiment in November, 1914.

On May 29th, 1915, he went to the front, being attached to the 2nd Battalion the Border Regiment.
He was hit by a sniper in the trenches between Festubert and La Bassee on June 19th. On the same day he was sent to Boulogne, and died in hospital there on June 23rd, 1915, Aged 19.

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