The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Lance Corporal G Dowding

Lance Corporal George DOWDING / DOWNING, G/8827, 11th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 338, Middlesex Regiment), killed in action, Flanders France, 15th September 1916, age 19.

Born Sydenham, SE, son of Arthur and Emily Dowding, of 45, East Terrace, Fairlawn Park, Sydenham, London.

1911 Census - 62 Elderton Road, Lower Sydenham, SE - Arthur Dowding, head, age 42, married, general labourer, employed, road contractors, born Parish of Penge; Emily Dowding, wife, age 41, married 21 years, 13 children, 9 still alive, born Mead Vale; Arthur Dowding, son, age 20, single, gas fitters mate, employed Gas Works, born Penge; George Dowding, son age 13, errand boy, born Sydenham; Alice Dowding, daughter, age 11, born Sydenham; Albert Dowding, son, age 9, born Sydenham; Elenor Dowding, daughter, age 5, born Sydenham; Emily Dowding, daughter, age 4. born Sydenham; Margaret Dowding, daughter, age 3, born Sydenham; Ivy Dowding, daughter, age 1.

NOTE - entrance crossed through - Florence Dowding, daughter, age 15, single, servant, born Lower Sydenham.

Enlisted Kingsway, WC.

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial Pier & Face 11C, Somme, France.

NOTE: Regimental History & Soldiers Died in the Great War show name as DOWNING; CWGC website show it as DOWDING.

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