The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Corporal W Willimott

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Corporal Walter WILLIMOTT, 240820, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, 53 Casualty Clearing Station, Flanders France, 30th August 1918.

Born Sidcup, Kent, son of David Arthur & Elizabeth Willimott, 12 Clarence Avenue, Sidcup, Kent.

1911 Census - 28 Birkbeck Road, Sidcup, Kent - David Arthur Willimott, head, age 31, married, bootmaker, Bootmaking, own account, at home, born Dulwich, Surrey; Elizabeth Willimott, wife, age 41, married 21 years, 1 child, born Wells, Somerset; Arthur Henry Willimott, son, age 1 year 7 months, born Sidcup, Kent; Elizabeth Willimott, mother, age 52, widow, married 18 years, 7 children, 5 still alive, born London; Henry Frank Willimott, brother, age 22, single, bootmaker, Bootmaking, worker, at home, born Peckham, Surrey; Albert Willimott, brother, age 19, single, baker, worker, born Sidcup, Kent; Walter Willimott, brother, age 18, single, bootmaker, Bootmaking, worker, at home, born born Sidcup, Kent.

Enlisted  Bromley, Kent, age 20 years & 11 months, height 5ft 10inches.  Resided 76 Hatherley Road, Sidcup, Kent. Formerly boot repairer.

Home, 17th November 1914 to 14th April 1918. BEF, 15th April 1918 to 30th August 1918.

17th November 1914, enlisted & posted 5th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 12th July 1915, appointed unpaid Acting Lance Corporal; 10th August 1915, promoted to Acting Corporal; 21st October 1916, appointed paid Lance Sergeant; 13th April 1917 to 15th April 1917, Wye, Hospital, scabies; 21st May 1917 to 5th June 1917, ?????? Brown Park, synovitis? ; 5th June 1917 to 14th June 1917, Military Hospital, Canterbury, sprain of ?????; 12th September 1917, Folkestone, embarked; 12th September 1917, Boulogne, disembarked; 12th September 1917, Etaples, 40 Infantry Base Depot; 16th December 1917, Camieres, 22nd General Hospital, left inguinal hernia, severe; 30th January 1918, Etaples, 6 Convalescent Depot; 27th March 1918, posted 10th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 7th April 1918, Etaples, "J" Infantry Base Depot; 15th April 1918, posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, as Corporal; 20th May 1918, Hanselot?, 25 General Hospital,  NYD (Sick) mild; 12th July 1918, rejoined Battalion.

Buried at Daours Communal Cemetery Extension, VIII. B. 12., Somme, France. Commemorated Sidcup, Kent, War Memorial.

NOTE: Soldiers Died in the Great War gives date of death as 30th August 1918; CWGC web site shows 31st August 1918.