The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Lance Corporal S J Gates

Lance Corporal Sydney John GATES, G/8596, 10th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 7th June 1917, age 21.

Born Selling, Kent, son of Annie J Bishop, of 19, Stanley Avenue, Queenborough, Kent.

1911 Census - 19 Johnsons Cottages, New Road, Queenborough, Kent - Annie Gates, head, age 45, widow, married 27 years, 10 children, 7 still alive, born Canterbury, Kent; Albert Gates, son, age 21, single, grocers assistant, Economical Society Ltd, born Iwade, Kent; Percy Gates, son, age 19, single, pottery manufacturing, born Queenborough, Kent; Annie Gates, daughter, age 17, single, glass bottle works, born Queenborough, Kent; Sydney Gates, son, age 14, glass bottle works, born Boughton, Kent; Kate Gates, daughter, age 12, at school, born Queenborough, Kent; Bertha Gates, daughter, age 8, at school, born Queenborough, Kent; Stephen Trend, nephew, age 17, glass bottle works, born Whitstable, Kent; John Bishop, boarder, age 39, pottery manufacturing, born Hackney, Middlesex.

Buried at Voormezeele Enclosure No.3, Sp. Mem. 15., Belgium. Commemorated Queenborough War Memorial.

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