The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Lance Corporal W T Owers

Lance Corporal William Thomas OWERS, G/7456, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 2019, Royal Sussex Regiment), killed in action, Flanders France, 22nd March 1918.

Born Bromley-by-Bow, Middlesex, son of Charles & Mary Louise Owers.

1911 Census - 5 Eldon Road, East Worthing, Sussex - Charles Owers, head, age 48, married, gas stoker, Gas Company, worker, born Poplar, London; Mary Louise Owers, wife, age 48, married 24 years, 11 children, 10 still alive, born Stepney, London; Charles John Owers, son, age 23, single, gas stoker, Gas Company, worker, born Poplar, London; William Owers, son, age 20, single, gas fitter, Gas Company, worker, born Poplar, London; Fredrick Owers, son, age 15, single, fishmongers errand boy, worker, born Poplar, London; Herbert Owers, son, age 13, school, born Poplar, London; Mary Ellen Owers, daughter, age 12, school, born Poplar, London; Thomas Owers, son, age 10, school, born Deptford, London; Alfred Owers, son, age 7, born Worthing, Sussex; Catherine Owers, son, age 5, born Worthing, Sussex.

1915 September East Preston, Sussex, Registration District, married Ellen Kate Smith, born 13th January 1891.

Children - Ellen Louise Owers, born 12th July 1916, East Preston, Sussex, Registration District.

Enlisted Worthing, Sussex. Resided London.

Commemorated at Pozieres Memorial, Panel 58 and 59, France.

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