The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Second Lieutenant T B M Streatfield

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Battlefield marker - St Mary's Church, Chiddingstone Road, Chiddingsatone, Sevenoaks, Kent

Photographs by "geoffrey gillon"

Second Lieutenant  Thomas Basil Maryon STREATFIELD, 3rd Battalion, attached 1st  Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, 7th November 1917,  age 19.

26th February 1888S, born Folkestone, Kent, son of Dr.Thomas and Florence Ethel Ignatia Streatfeild (nee Maryon Wilson), of 2, Manor Road, Folkestone, Kent. 

1911 Census - 113 Sandgate Road, Folkestone, Kent - Thomas Streatfeild, head, age 41, married, Medical Practitioner, own account, born St Georges, Hanover Square, London; Florence Ethel Streatfeild, wife, age 35, married 14 years, 2 children, both still alive, born Marylebone, London; Thomas Basil Maryon Streatfeild, son, age 13, school, born Folkestone, Kent; Cynthia Streatfeild, daughter, age 1, born Folkestone, Kent; Maria Louisa Fulton, servant, age 24, single, cook domestic, worker, born Scopwick, Lincolnshire; Edith Violet Gertrude Easton, servant, age 21, single, parlour maid domestic, worker, born Folkestone, Kent; Grace Catherine Hemsley, servant, age 31, single, nurse domestic, worker, born Ashford, Kent.

Educated at Horris Hill, Newbury, Sherborne School and November 1916 R.M.C. Sandhurst.

September 1917, posted BEF.

9th February 1918, Probate - Thomas Basil Maryon Streatfeild, of 2, Manor Road, Folkestone, Kent Second Lieutenant Royal West Kent Regiment  died 7th November 1917 in France or Belgium. Administration London 9th February to Thomas Streatfeild M.D. Effects £188 1s 10d.

Buried at Hooge Crater Cemetery, VIII. C. 3., Belgium. Commemorated Folkestone War Memorial.

NOTE: Regimental History and Officers Died in the Great War both show last name as STREATFIELD; CWGC web site show it as STREATFEILD.

London Gazette 12th September 1917.

War Office, 12th September, 1917. REGULAR FORCES.

The under mentioned Gentlemen  Cadets, from the Royal Military College to be 2nd Lieutenants. Dated 13th September 1917: 

Royal West Kent Regiment - Thomas Basil Maryon Streatfield.