The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Lance Corporal J C Silcock

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Lance Corporal John Cooke SILCOCK, G/5709, 11th  Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders, France, 20th  September 1917, age 24.

Born Croydon, Surrey, son of John Cooke &  Mary Ann  Silcock, of 25, Harrison's Rise, West Croydon, Surrey.

17th September 1893, St John Croydon, Surrey, baptism of John Cooke Silcock, son of John Cooke, (paperhanger), &  Mary Ann  Silcock, 28 Church Road, Croydon.

1911 Census - 25 Harrisons Rise, Croydon, Surrey - John Silcock, age 48, married, paperhanger, free? trader?, born Islington; Mary Silcock, wife, age 43, married  20 years, 4 children, all still alive; Harry Silcock, son, age 19, single, dairyman milking, day money, worker, born Croydon; Jack Solcock, son, age 18, single, dairyman milking, day money, worker, born Croydon; Mary Ann Silcock, daughter, age 8, born Croydon; Jessie Lydia Silcock, daughter, age 12, born Croydon; George Cooke Silcock, father, age 77, born Canterbury.

Enlisted Norwood, Surrey, age 21 years & 6 months.  Resided 25 Harrisons Road, West Croydon Surrey / 50 Rymer Road, Croydon, Surrey / Sleaford Road, Heckington, Lincolnshire. Formerly milk carrier.

Home 6th February 1915 to 28th June 1915; BEF 29th June 1915 to 6th June 1916; Home 7th July 1916 to 13th June 1917; BEF 14th June 1917 to 20th SEptember 1917.

6th February 1915, enlisted; 29th June 1915, posted BEF; 20th November 1915, appointed unpaid Lance Corporal; 25th December 1915, 37 Field Ambulance, influenza; 30th December 1915, 1 Casualty Clearing Station; 11th January 1916, rejoined Battalion; 26th February 1916, appointed paid Lance Corporal; 14th March 1916, 38 Field Ambulance, wounded in action, right eyelid; 16th March 1916, rejoined Battalion; 3rd July 1916, wounded in action, gun shot wounds, arms; 6th July 1916, to England, Hospital Ship Marama, ex 2 Convalescent Depot, Rouens;

2nd September 1916, St John Croydon, Surrey, John Cooke Silcock, age 23, bachelor, Lance Corporal, Royal West Kent Regiment, 25 Harrisons Rise, father John Cooke Silcock, paperhanger, married *Hilda Gertrude Cooke, age 21, spinster, 50 Rymer Road, Croydon, Surrey, father, Charles Cook, bricklayer.  *born 29th July 1895.

Children - Rose Mary Gertrude Silcock, born 25th February 1918.

14th June 1917, posted BEF; 14th June 1917, posted 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 6th July 1917, joined Battalion, In the Field; 5th August 1917, Camieres, 22 General Hospital, Trench Fever; 13th August 1917, Etaples, 40 Infantry Base Depot; 29th August 1917, rejoined Battalion, In the Field.

29th April 1918, pension of 18/9 a week awarded to widow and one child.

1920 March, Croydon Registration District, Hilda G Silcock, married William F Tree.

Commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 106 to 108, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.