The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private A W Cole

Private Albert Walter COLE, G/18703, 10th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 7th June 1917.

Born Hammersmith, Middlesex.

29th November 1913, Chiswick Parish Church, married Lily May Norcott, spinster.

Enlisted Ealing, Middlesex, age 26 years & 11 months, height 5ft 5½ inches, weight 110lbs, vaccination marks, 4 left teeth defective. Resided 219 Uxbridge Road, West Ealing, London W. Formerly moulder in lead.

Home 12th December 1915 to 3rd October 1916; BEF 4th October 1916 to 7th June 1917.

Separation Allowance of 12/6 a week & Allotment of pay of 3/6 a week paid to wife.

12th December 1915, enlisted; 13th December 1915, to Army Reserve; 22nd June 1916, mobilized & posted Depot, Royal Fusiliers, Service No.38186; 23rd June 1916, posted 5th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers; 4th October 1916, posted 11th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers & BEF & embarked; 5th October 1916, disembarked; 5th October 1916, 39 Infantry Base Depot, Etaples; 14th October 1916, transferred to "A" Company, 10th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

7th January 1918, pension of 13/9 a week awarded to widow.

Commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Panel 45 & 47, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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