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The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Lance Corporal S Hayward

Photograph by "Steve Morris"

Lance Corporal Sidney HAYWARD, 202502, 2nd/4th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 1969, The Buffs), killed in action, Egypt, 4th November 1917, age 20.

10th January 1897, Brook, Kent, baptism of Sydney Hayward, son of William and Kate Hayward, of Troy Town, Brook, nr. Ashford, Kent.

1911 Census - The Street, Rose Cottage, Brook, Ashford, Kent - William Hayward, head, age 56, married, farm labourer, worker, born Wye Parish, Kent; Kat Hayward, wife, age 56, married 36 years, 8 children, all still alive, born Wye Parish, Kent; Fred Hayward, son, age 27, single, farm labourer, worker, born Wye Parish, Kent; Kate Hayward, daughter, age 20, single, born Wye Parish, Kent; Sidney Hayward, son, age 14, farm labourer, worker, born Brook, Kent; William Barham, boarder, age 49, single, farm labourer, worker, born Wye Parish, Kent.

Enlisted Ashford, Kent. Resided Brook, Kent.

9th August 1915, posted Balkans Theatre of War.

Buried at Beersheba War Cemetery, G.41., Israel.

External link to Brook Roll of Honour.

External Link to FadedGenes

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