The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Company Sergeant Major H C Wells

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Company Serjeant Major Henry Charles WELLS, G/6751, 10th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, Flanders France, 30th September 1916, age 45.

Born Beckenham, Kent.

Children - Eileen Florence Mary Wells, born 15th December 1901; Henry Charles William Wells, born 22nd February 1903; Albert Edward Wells, born 20th November 1904; Ethel Lilian May Wells, born 22nd February 1908.

1911 Census - 21 Auckland Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent - Henry Charles Wells, age 38 years & 9 months, married, Police Constable, Borough, born Erith, Kent; Mary Jane Wells, wife, age 39 years & 2 months, married 14 years & 6 months, born Dunbarm County Fermanah, Ireland; Edith Elizabeth Mafeking Wells, daughter, age 10 years & 10 months, school, born Maidstone, Kent; Eileen Florence Mary Wells, daughter, age 9 years & 3 months, school, born Maidstone, Kent; Henry Charles William Wells, son, age 8 years & 1 month, school, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Albert Edward Wells, son, age 6 years & 4 months, school,  born Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Ethel Lilian May Wells, daughter, age 3 years & 2 months, born  born Tunbridge Wells, Kent;

William Henry Liddiard, boarder / head, age 63, married 38 years, 1 child, still alive, coachman, unemployed, born Reading, Berkshire.

Father of Mrs. Edith Cassell (nee Wells), of 28, Park Road, Plumstead, London. 

Formerly P.C. in the Kent Constabulary, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. 

Enlisted Tonbridge, Kent.  Resided Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

Buried at Dartmoor Cemetery, II. D. 4., Becordel-Becourt, Somme, France.