The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Lieutenant W E Sykes

Photograph by "Claude Laignel"

Lieutenant Walter Ernest SYKES, 5th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, 20th November 1917.

16th January 1875, born Calcutta, West Bengal, India, son of George Samuel & Harriet Newell Sykes.

1908 September, Hendon Registration District married Dorothea Patricia Mary Boyd, 98 Alexandra Road, Upper Parkstone, Dorset.

1911 Census - Willow Cottage, Eynsford, Dartford, Kent - Walter Earnest Sykes, head, age 36, married, Patent Agent, worker, born Bengal, India; Dorothea Mary Sykes, wife, age 30, married 2 years, no children, born London.

27th November 1916, posted BEF.

Croydon Roll of Honour - SYKES WALTER ERNEST, Lt., 5 R.W.Kent Regt. b., Calcutta; s., Mr. & Mrs. Sykes. 26 Moreton Rd., Croydon. Educ., Paradise House Sch., Stoke Newington. Married. Chartered patent agent. Res., Mecklenburgh Sq., Lond., W.C. Served in Territorials several yrs. before war; mobilised as Lt,. 4 Aug., '14; went to India, Nov., '14; was later transf. to France. Fell nr.Cambrai, 20 Nov., '17.

13th May 1918, Probate - Walter Ernest Sykes, 26 Moreton Road., South Croydon, Surrey, Lieutenant 5th Royal West Kent Regiment, died 20th November 1917 in France. Administration London 13th May to Dorothea Sykes widow. Effects £228 16s.

Buried at Fifteen Ravine British Cemetery, III. B. 11., Villers-Plouich, France.

London Gazette, 3rd February 1911.

5th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment. The appointment of Second Lieutenant Walter Ernest Sykes, which was announced in the London Gazette of the 7th October 1910, is antedated to 23rd July 1910.

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