The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private A Pattenden

Private Alfred PATTENDEN, L/8477, 2nd Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, 25th July 1915.

Born Edenbridge, Kent, son of George & Ellen Pattenden.

Enlisted Tonbridge, Kent.

6th February 1915, posted Asiatic Theatre of War.

Commemorated at Basra Memorial, Panel 29, Iraq.

Commemorated on Tonbridge War Memorial - Tonbridge War Memorial - The original World War I memorial at the Junction of Pembury Road and Quarry Hill. The names were later re-inscribed in the new Memorial Garden in Bradford Street.

From Tonbridge History - Alfred Pattenden was born in Ticehurst in 1885, son of George and Ellen. In 1901 he lived at Old Farm Cottage, Bidborough and was a carter’s boy on the farm. By 1911 the family had moved to 159 Shipbourne Road (Keepers Cottage, Cage Farm). He joined the Royal West Kent Regiment 2nd Battalion as Private L/8477 and entered the war in February 1915. He died of wounds in Mesopotamia and is remembered on the Basra memorial.

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