The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private A L Hales


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Private Albert Louis HALES, G/31470, 7th Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 95195, Middlesex Regiment), killed in action, Flanders France, death presumed, 27th August 1918, age 18.

Born Buckhurst Hill, Essex, son of George and Ellen Hales, of 21, Gladstone Road, Buckhurst Hill, Essex.

17th December 1889, St John the Baptist, Buckhurst Hill, Essex, baptism of Albert Lewis Hales, son of George and Ellen Hales.


1911 Census - 2 Bexhill Cottages, Gladstone Road, Buckhurst Hill, Essex - George Hales, head, age 37, married, carman, worker, born West Hanningfield, Essex; Ellen Hales, wife, age 36, married 15 years, 7 children, 6 still alive, born Kedington, Suffolk; George William Hales, son, age 14, news boy, worker, born Buckhurst Hill, Essex; Arthur Edward Hales, son, age 12, news boy /school, born Buckhurst Hill, Essex; Albert Lewis Hales, son, age 11, school, born Buckhurst Hill, Essex; Ernest Sidney Hales, son, age 8, school, born Buckhurst Hill, Essex; Alice Lillian Hales, daughter, age 7, school, born Buckhurst Hill, Essex; Laura Gwendolin Hales, daughter, age 4, school, born Buckhurst Hill, Essex.


Enlisted Whitehall, SW.

Buried at Bernafay Wood British Cemetery, G. 37., Montauban, France.

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