The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Corporal J H Luxon

Photograph by "International Wargraves Photography Project"

Corporal John Henry LUXON, G/6805, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders, France, 23rd May 1917.

Born Stepney, Middlesex.

6th August 1906, St Saviour, Poplar, Tower Hamlets, John Luxon, age 22, bachelor, labourer, 76 Sussex Street, father James Luxon, shipwright, married Elizabeth Ann Spurling, age 21, spinster, 76 Sussex Street, father William Spurling, deceased.

1911 Census - 13 Cobden Street, Poplar, London - John H Luxon, head, age 27, married, railway labourer, worker, born Stepney, Middlesex; Elizabeth Luxon, wife, age 25, married 4 years, 4 children, 2 still alive, born Bromley, Middlesex; Charlot C E Luxon, daughter, age 3, born Bromley, Middlesex; #James Charles Luxon, son, age 11 months, born Bromley, Middlesex;

Two entries crossed through - John W Luxon, son, dead, born Bromley, Middlesex; *Alfred T Luxon, son, dead, born Bromley, Middlesex.

*1909 June, Stepney Registration District, Alfred Thomas died age 0. # 1910 December, Stepney Registration District, Charles J Luxon, died age 1.

Children from Pension Records after Soldiers Death on 23rd May 1917 - Charlotte Caroline Elizabeth Luxon, born 21st April 1907, Poplar, Middlesex; George Henry Luxon, born 6th July 1912, Poplar, Middlesex; John James Luxon, born 18th December 1913, Poplar, Middlesex.

Enlisted Poplar, Middlesex.

11th October 1915, posed BEF.

Buried at Railway Dugouts Burial Ground, IV. F. 16., Belgium.

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