Drummer Ernest SINGYARD, G/25294, 11th  Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 20th September 1917, age 31.

Born Yalding, Kent, son of James & Ellen Singyard, of 1, Belgrave Terrace, Laddingford, Yalding, Maidstone, Kent

1911 Census - 4 Rose Villa, Malling Road, Snodland, Kent - Annie Roots, head, age 43, widow, 5 children, 4 still alive, born Horsmonden, Kent; Willie Roots, son, age 18, single, paper maker, paper mills, worker, born Horsmonden, Kent; Ethel Roots, daughter, age 15, single, domestic servant, born Horsmonden, Kent; Frederick Roots, son, age 12, school, born Marden, Kent; Frederick Sales, boarder, age 19, single, cement labourer, cement works, born Canterbury, Kent; Ernest Singyard, boarder, age 24, single, cement labourer, cement works, born Laddingford, Kent.

Entry crossed out - Olive Bromley, lodger, age 84, widow, old age pensioner, born Maidstone, Kent.

Enlisted Maidstone, Kent.

Commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 106 to 108, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium / Yalding War Memorial

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