The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Lance Corporal W Stringer

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Lance Corporal Walter STRINGER, 202670, 2nd/4th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent  Regiment, (formerly 2518, The Buffs), killed in action, Egypt, 4th November 1917, age 22. 

Son of Edmund & Sarah Stringer, of 6, The Hill, Littlebourne, Canterbury, Kent.

5th May 1895, Parish Church, Patrixbourne, Kent, baptism of Walter Stringer, son of Edmund & Sarah Stringer.

1911 Census - 6, The Hill, Littlebourne, Canterbury, Kent - Edmund Stringer, head, age 58, married, farm labourer, worker, born Swinfield, Kent; Sarah Stringer, wife, age 55, married 35 years, 11 children, 10 still alive, born St Margarets at Cliffe, Kent; Alfred Stringer, son, age 18, single, domestic gardener, worker, born Bridge, Kent; Walter Stringer, son, age 16, horseman on farm, worker, born Bridge, Kent; Ernest Stringer, son, age 14, dealer, worker, born Bridge, Kent; Herbert Stringer, age 11, school, born Ickham, Kent; Susanah Newing, visitor, age 77, widow, born Dover, Kent.

Enlisted Dover, Kent.  Resided Littlebourne, Kent.

9th August 1915, posted Balkans Theatre of War.

Buried at Beersheba War Cemetery, G.8., Israel, and Littlebourne War Memorial