The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private A Richards

Private Alfred RICHARDS, G/1330, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, death assumed on or after, 3rd August 1917, age 23.

Born Sydenham, SE, son of William and Annie Richards, of 3, Camden Cottages, Southend Lane, Lower Sydenham, London.

1911 Census - 3, Camden Cottages, Southend Lane, Lower Sydenham, London SE - William Richards, head, age 60, married, Gas Works labourer, Gas Works, worker, born Dover, Kent; Annie Richard, wife, age 54, married 36 years, 16 children, 9 still alive, born Camberwell, London; Henry Stephen Richards, son, age 18, single, milkman, worker, born Lower Sydenham; Alfred Richards, son, age 16, single, news bau, W H Smith & Son, worker, born Lower Sydenham; Rose Richards, daughter, age 14, student, born Lower Sydenham.

Enlisted Bromley, Kent.

1st October 1915, posted BEF.

Commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Panel 45 and 47, Belgium.

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