Lance Corporal Stephen Frederick WICKENS, G/11618, 10th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action or died in wounds, Flanders France, 29th September 1918, age 27.

Born Linton, Kent, son of Edward & Elizabeth Wickens.

1911 Census - Alchins Cottage, Coxheath, Linton, Kent - Edward Wickens, head, age 52, married, farm labourer, general, farm, worker, born Hunton, Kent; Elizabeth Wickens, wife, age 49, married 32 years, 15 children, 11 still alive, born Linton, Kent; Horace Wickens, son, age 28, single, farm labourer, general, farm, worker, born Linton, Kent; Albert Henry Wickens, son, age 19, single, milkman, farm, worker, born Linton, Kent; Stephen Frederick Wickens, son, age 17, single, milkman, farm, worker, born Linton, Kent; Earnest John Wickens, son, age 12, school, born Linton, Kent; Laura Mafeking Wickens, age 11, school, born Linton, Kent; Lenard Thomas Wickens, age 9, school, born Linton, Kent.

7th September 1912, Parish Church, Malling, Kent, married Emily Phillis Wickens, spinster, 10, Leeds Cottages, Hadlow, Tonbridge, Kent.

Children - Edith Mary Lucy Wickens, born 7th October 1912, Malling, Kent; Freda Phillis Wickens, born 5th May 1915, Malling, Kent.

Enlisted Tonbridge, Kent, age 24 years & 218 days, height 5ft 8 inches.  Resided Rats Castle, Roughway, near Tonbridge, Kent. Formerly farm labourer.

Home 15th December 1915 to 2nd May 1916; BEF 3rd May 1916 to 13th June 1917; Home 14th June 1917 to 29th March 1918; BEF 30th March 1918 to 29th September 1918.

15th December 1915, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 15th December 1915, posted 10th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment;

3rd May 1916, Southampton, embarked; 4th May 1916, Havre, disembarked; 21st December 1916, transferred to Machine Gun Corps, 123 Company, No.72113; 11th March 1917, appointed unpaid Lance Corporal; 12th March 1917, Terdeghan, proceeded on Bombing Course; 19th March 1917, rejoined from Bombing Course; 10th June 1917, 123 MGC, wounded in action; 10th June 1917, 17 Casualty Clearing Station, shrapnel wound left thumb; 11th June 1917, Dannes? Camiers?, admitted 22 General Hospital; 14th June 1917, admitted 1st Birmingham War Hospital, gun shot wound left hand, compound fracture; 29th September 1917 to 9th October 1917, furlough after discharge; 12th October 1917, Grantham, posted CD Alnwick; 14th March 1918, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, unfit for Machine Gun Corps; 30th March 1918, posted BEF; 30th March 1918, embarked / disembarked; 2nd April 1918, proceeded to join 10th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 21st July 1918, appointed unpaid Lance Corporal; 29th September 1918, wounded in action.

16th July 1919, date when Separation Allowance of 29/- a week payable to wife will cease.

17th July 1917, pension of 25/5 a week awarded to widow & two children.

Buried at Perth Cemetery (China Wall), I. J. 22., Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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