The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private A P Wallis

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Private Archibald Pendavis WALLIS, G/3799, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment,  killed in action, Flanders France, 28th February 1916, age 20.

Born Bromley, Kent, son of John and Elizabeth Wallis, 7, Alexandra Villa, Perry Hall Road, Orpington, Kent. 

1911 Census - 7 Alexandria Villas, Perry Hall Road, Orpington, Kent - John Wallis, head, age 58, married, travelling draper, working on own account, born St Just, Cornwall; Elizabeth Wallis, wife, age 40, married 20 years, 8 children, 7 still alive, occasional work on farm, worker, born Pendeen, Cornwall; Benjamin Thomas Wallis, son, age 17, single, under gardener, domestic, worker, born Pendeen, Cornwall; Archibald Penderis Wallis son, age 14, under gardener, domestic, worker, born Bromley, Kent; Dorothea Jane Wallis, daughter, age 13, school, born Bromley, Kent; Mary May Wallis, daughter, age 9, born Orpington, Kent; Reggie Wallis, son, age 7, born Orpington, Kent; Harold George Wallis, son, age 2, born Orpington, Kent.

Enlisted Bromley, Kent.  Resided Orpington, Kent.

1st October 1915, posted BEF.

Buried at Perth Cemetery, (China Wall), IV. A. 17., Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium & commemorated on Orpington War Memorial.

NOTE: Soldiers Died in the Great War show a first name as Pendavis; CWGC web site show it as Pendarvis.

see also Private H J Wallis