The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Corporal F Britton

Corporal Frederick BRITTON, 240926, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, France and Flanders, 26th October 1917.

Born Southwark, London, son of Thomas & Sarah Britton.

1911 Census - 85 Monkton Street, Kennington, SE - Thomas Britton, head, gae 51, married, iron plate worker, born Wolverhampton; Sarah Britton, wife, age 51, married 31 years, 13 children, 7 still alive, born Wolverhampton; Frederick Britton, son, age 21, single, electrotyper, stereotyper, born Southwark, London; Thomas Britton, son, age 14, junior packer, Laws Publisher, bookseller, born Islington, London; Rose Violet Britton, daughter, age 10, born Islington, London.

11th October 1914, St Philip, Lambeth, marriage of Frederick Britton, bachelor, age 24, stereotyper, 30a St Mary Square, father Thomas Britton, iron plate worker & Rosina Elizabeth Bluck, spinster, age 25, machinist, 8 Doris Street, Lambeth, father William Bluck, deceased, coal merchant.

Child - Rosina E Britton, born 1916 December Quarter, Lambeth.

Enlisted 184 Fleet Street, EC, age 26, height 5ft 6½ inches, weight 142lbs. Resided 21 Harpur Street, Kennington Road, SE. Formerly electrotyper.

Home 22nd May 1915 to 11th September 1917; BEF 12th September 1917 to 26th October 1917.

22nd May 1915, enlisted, 2/5th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, 3264; 12th September 1915, Sevenoaks, absent without leave from midnight till about 3.30pm 14th September 1915, 7days confined to Barracks, forfeits 2 days pay; 9th October 1915, appointed unpaid Lance Corporal; 13th November 1915, appointed paid Lance Corporal; 24th November 1915 to 19th January 1916, VAD Hospital, Tonbridge, fractured fibula, not in performance of military duties; 27th July 1916 to 31st July 1916, Military Hospital, Canterbury, tonsillitis; 30th September 1916, promoted Acting Corporal; 12th September 1917, Folkestone, embarked; 12th September 1917, disembarked Boulogne; 12th September 1917, 40 Infantry Base Depot, posted 3/4th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 16th September 1917, posted 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 18th September 1917, appointed Acting Paid Corporal; 4th October 1917, awarded Military Medal.

10th June 1918, pension of 20/5 a week awarded to widow Rosina Britton, 2 Kempsford Road, Kennington, SE11 and child.

Commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 106 to 108, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

AWARDS : MM

London Gazette 28th January 1918.

His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the award of the Military Medal for bravery in the Field to the under mentioned Warrant Officers, Non-commissioned Officers and Men:

240926 Pte. (Cpl.) F. Britton, Royal West Kent Regiment. (Kennington).

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