The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Corporal H Groves

Inscription - "THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT BE BLOTTED OUT"

Photograph by "International Wargraves Photography Project"

Corporal Herbert GROVES, L/7478, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 22nd February 1915.

Born Pembury, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

1911 Census - Quebee Barracks, Bordon, Hampshire - Herbert Groves, Private, age 27, married, 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, soldier, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

1911 Census - 118 Clarendeon Street, Folkestone Road, Dover, Kent - Mabel Agnes Groves, wife, age 25, married 3 years, 1 child, still alive, born Dover, Kent; Ada May Groves, daughter, age 1, born Dover, Kent.

Enlisted Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

15th August 1914, posted BEF.

Buried at Tuileries British Cemetery, Special Memorial B. 1., Belgium.

NOTE: Regimental History & Soldiers Died in the Great War show rank as Corporal; CWGC web site show rank as Serjeant.

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