The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Bandsman C G Wakefield

Bandsman (Private) Charles Gresley WAKEFIELD, G/9948, 11th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 5th October 1916, age 30, while carrying a wounded soldier to the Dressing Station. Buried 50 yards east of Eaucourt l'Abbaye, four and a half miles north west of Combles.

9th September 1886 born Bow, Middlesex, only son of Charles Thomas Wakefield, (Foreman at Messrs Waterlow & Son), & Rose (Rosina) Wakefield, of 35, Strahan Road, Bow, London.

3rd September 1892, Harley Street, Congregational Chapel, Tower Hamlets, baptism of Charles Gresley Wakefield, son of Charles Thomas Wakefield, (Foreman at Messrs Waterlow & Son), & Rosina Wakefield

1911 Census - 35, Strahan Road, Bow, London. - Charles Thomas Wakefield, head, age 62, married, warehouseman stationers, worker, born St Giles, London; Rosina Wakefield, wife, age 59, married 30 years, 3 children, 2 still alive, born Shoreditch, London; Charles Gresley Wakefield, son, age 24, single, clerk drapery, worker, born Bethnal Green, Middlesex.

Previously served 6 years with Royal Engineers.

5th June 1915, Calton Street, Baptist Church, Poplar, married Edith Hunter, ( daughter of John Isaac Hunter).

Child - George G Wakefield, born 2nd March 1916, Camberwell District.

Enlisted Lewisham, SE, age 29 years & 30 days, height 5ft 5½ inches, weight 130lbs. Resided 95, Nunhead Lane, Nunhead, London. Formerly invoice clerk at Messrs Nicholson's, St Paul's Churchyard, London, EC .

Home, 13th September 1915 to 2nd May 1916; BEF, 3rd May 1916 to 5th October 1916.

13th September 1915, enlisted & posted 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 3rd May 1916, posted BEF; Served with the Expeditionary Force in France & Flanders where he acted as a stretcher bearer.

1919 March, Croydon Registration District, Edith Wakefield married John A Smith.

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 11C, Somme, France.

NOTE: Regimental History & Soldiers Died in the Great War both show Service No. as G/9948; CWGC show G/19948.

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