The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Peter A Waterman

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Private Albert WATERMAN, G/2135, "A" Company, 7th Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment,  killed in action,  Flanders France, 28th August 1918, age 32.

Born West Mersea Isle, Colchester, Essex, son of Alfred and Emma E. Waterman, of 73, Cromwell Road, Whitstable, Kent. 

1911 Census - 11 Cltde Terrace, Forest Hill, SE - Mercy Perrett, head, age 65, widow, married 43 years, 12 children, 7 still alive, born Brighton, Sussex: Jessie Perrett, daughter, age 40, single, cook general domestic, worker, born Forest Hill, Kent; Harry Perrett, son, age 29, single, general labourer, worker, born Forest Hill, Kent; Alice May Perrett, daughter, age 27, single, postman, worker, born Forest Hill, Kent; Richard George Coker, boarder, age 21, single, baker, worker, born Edenbridge, Kent; Doris May Perrett, grandchild, age 1, born Upper Norwood, Surrey; Albert Waterman, boarder, age 25, single, baker, worker, born West Mersea, Essex.

Enlisted Tunbridge Wells, Kent.  Resided Eltham, Kent.

26th July 1915, posted BEF.

Buried at Becourt Military Cemetery, II. A. 20., Becordel-Becourt, Somme, France.