The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private A T Ward

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Private Alfred Thomas WARD, L/9357, 2nd Battalion  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (attached 3rd Division Signal Company), died of wounds, Basra with Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, 6th June 1916, age 28.

Born Egerton, Kent, son of Alfred & Fanny Ward, Langley Heath, Maidstone, Kent. 

Enlisted Maidstone, Kent.

1911 Census - Quebee Barracks, Bordon, Hampshire - Alfred Ward, Private, age 20, single, 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, Soldier, born Egerton, Kent.

26th September 1914, posted MEF?

Buried  at Amara War Cemetery, XXII. A. 8., Iraq.

NOTE from CWGC -  In 1933, all of the headstones were removed from this cemetery when it was discovered that salts in the soil were causing them to deteriorate. Instead a screen wall was erected with the names of those buried in the cemetery engraved upon it.