The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Corporal H Smith

Corporal Henry SMITH, G/94, 6th Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, death presumed on or after, 3rd July 1916.

Born Sutton-at-Hone, Kent, son of Robert E & Jane Smith.

1911 Census - 5 Mill Road, Hawley, Dartford, Kent - Mary Smith, head, age 50, single, laundress, own account, at home, born Spalding, Lincolnshire; Arthur Holland, boarder, age 16, single, engineers apprentice, iron foundry (works crossed out), worker, born Ryarsh, Kent; Henry Smith, visitor, age 14, single, gardener, marker, nursing?, worker, at home, born Hawley, Kent.

1911 Census - The Nurseries, Hawley, near Dartford, Kent - Robert Smith, head, age 49, married, Nurseryman, market, employer, born Spalding, Lincolnshire; Jane Smith, wife, age 49, married 26 years, 6 children, all still alive, born London; George William Smith, son, age 22, single, assisting Nurseryman, worker, at home, born Bexley Heath, Kent; Anne Elizabeth Smith, daughter, age 17, single, florist, worker, at home, born Hawley, Sutton-at-Hone, Kent; Jane Elizabeth Smith, daughter, age 13, scholar, born Hawley, Sutton-at-Hone, Kent; Millie Rose Sawyer, niece, age 3, born Swanley, Sutton-at-Hone, Kent; Alfred Arthur Ridenton, age 25, single, engineers fitter, mechanical engineer, worker, born London.

Enlisted Bromley, Kent.

1st June 1915, posted BEF.

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 11C, France / Sutton-at-Hone War Memorial.

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