The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Second Lieutenant T Cambridge

Inscription - " WHEN THE DAY DAWNS

AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY"

Photograph by - "Family Friend"

Second Lieutenant Thomas CAMBRIDGE, 2nd/4th Battalion (Territorial), Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, 3rd November 1917, age 26.

Son of Thomas and Jane Cambidge, of New House, Kinnerley, Oswestry.

1911 Census - New House Farm, Kinnerley, Oswestry - Thomas Cambridge, head, age 53, married, farmer, born Dovaston, Kinnerley, Shropshire; Jane Cambridge, wife, age 42, married 21 years, 2 children, both still alive, born Kinnerley, Shropshire; Thomas Cambridge, son, age 19, single, farmers son working on farm, born Kinnerley, Shropshire; Margaret Elizabeth Jane Cambride, daughter, age 10, school, born Kinnerley, Shropshire; John Fardoe, servant, age 26, single, waggoner on farm, born Kinnerley, Shropshire.

14th June 1918, Probate - Cambridge Thomas of New House, Kinnerley, Shropshire, Second Lieutenant, Royal West Kent Regiment, died 3rd November 1917 in Palestine. Administration Shrewsbury 14 June to Thomas Cambridge farmer. Effects £102.7s.7d.

Buried at Beersheba War Cemetery, G. 5., Israel

NOTE: Regimental History and Officers Died in the Great War spell last name CAMBRIDGE; CWGC web site show it as CAMBIDGE.

London Gazette 3rd October 1917.

Royal West Kent Regiment - C.S.M. Thomas Cambridge, from K.S.L.I., to be 2nd Lieutenant. - 16th August 1917.

London Gazette 31st December 1918

SOLDIERS BALANCES UNDISPOSED OF.

In pursuance of “The Regimental Debts Acts 1893” notice is hereby given that there is available for distribution amongst the Next of Kin or others entitled the sum of money set opposite to the name of each of the deceased Soldiers named in the lists which are published with this notice in the London Gazette and the “Army List” and are also to be seen at the Regimental Depots throughout the United Kingdom.

Applications from persons supposing themselves entitled as Next of Kin should be addressed by letter to Secretary, War Office, Imperial Institute, South Kensington, London, SW7 and marked outside “Effects”

War Office December 31st 1918 R H BRADE

List CCCCCXX of the names of deceased Officers and Soldiers whose Personal Estate is held for distribution amongst the Next of Kin or others entitled - Effects 1917-1918.

Cambridge T, 2nd Lieut, Royal West Kent Regiment. £111 6s 11d

London Gazette 30th December 1919

1st RE PUBLICATION of List CCCCCXX of the names of deceased Officers and Soldiers whose Personal Estate is held for distribution amongst the Next of Kin or others entitled - Effects 1917-1918.

Cambridge T, 2nd Lieut, Royal West Kent Regiment. £143 13s 4d

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