Corporal Ernest Walter RUCK, G/24733, 6th   Battalion., Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds 21st November  1917, Flanders,  age 40.

29th January 1877, born Maidstone, Kent, son of *George Charles & **Sarah Ruck.

*died 21st December 1879, Maidstone, Kent. ** died 27th May 1906, Hollingbourne, Kent.

14th December 1895, Maidstone, enlisted 97th Foot Soldiers, Service No.4645, age 19 years & 3 months, height 5ft 7¼ inches

5th October 1901 - 1899 - 1902, South Africa - Second Boer War - Private E Ruck, 2nd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, Service No.4645, Witterbergen & Cape Colony Clasp; 7th February 1903, Private E Ruck, 2nd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, Service No.4645, entitled to Kings South  Africa Medal & Transvaal Clasp.

3rd October 1904, Maistone, Kent, married Mabel Maud Alice Monk of 1, Hosier Lane, New Hythe, Larkfield, Maidstone, Kent. 

Children - Rose Ella May Ruck, born 3rd November 1905, Hollingbourne, Kent; Ellen Sarah A Ruck, born 5th October 1908, Ulcombe, Kent, died 21st September 1910, Hollingbourne, Kent; Ethel Elizabeth Ruck, born 24th February 1910, Hollingbourne, Kent;

1911 Census - Kingsnorth Cottages, Ulcomber, Kent - Ernest Ruck, head, age 34, married, road labourer, Hollingbourne Rural District Council, worker, born Maidstone, Kent; Maud Ruck, wife, age 30, married 6 years, 3 children, 2 still alive, born Walworth, London; Rose Ruck, daughter, age 5, school, born Lenham, Kent; Ellen Ruck, daughter, age 2, born Ulcombe, Kent.

Entry crossed through  - Ethel Ruck, daughter, age 1, born Ulcombe, Kent.

Children - Ernest George Ruck, born 22nd August 1911, Hollingbourne, Kent; John Thomas Ruck, born 9th September 1912, Maidstone, Kent; Maud Alice Ruck, born 4th February 1914, Hollingbourne, Kent, died 17th February 1914, Hollingbourne, Kent; Dorothy Hilda Ruck, born 27th February 1917, Malling, Kent.

Enlisted Sutton Valence, Kent.  Resided Aylesford, Kent.

Buried Tincourt New British Cemetery, II E 20, Somme, France. Commemorated  Larkfield War Memorial, East Malling Green /  Aylesford War Memorial, St. Peter and St.Paul's Church Aylesford, Kent.

Link to East Sutton Roll of Honour

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