The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private B Lovell

Photograph by "Carlos Aelvoet"

Private Bert LOVELL, G/21123, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action or died from wounds, Flanders, France, on or shortly after, 9th September 1917, age 21.

Born 1896, Bromley, Kent, son of Edgar Lovell & Mary Ann, (nee Short), 42, Newbury Road, Bromley, Kent.

Educated Aylesbury Road School, (now St Marks).

1911 Census - 42, Newbury Road, Bromley, Kent - Edgar Lovell, head, age 47, married, general labourer, building trade, worker, born Maidstone, Kent; Mary Ann Lovell, wife, age 45, married 19 years, 7 children, 5 still alive, born Bromley, Kent; Bertie Lovell, son, age 14, school & milk boy, born Bromley, Kent; Archibald Harold Lovell, son, age 12, school, born Bromley, Kent; Sidney Earnest Lovell, son, age 9, born Bromley, Kent; Dorothy May Lovell, daughter, age 5, born Bromley, Kent.

Enlisted Bromley, Kent, age 17 years & 10 months, height 5ft 6 inches, weight 147lbs. Resided 42 Newbury Road, Bromley, Kent.

Home 9th September 1914 to 11th August 1916; BEF 12th August 1916 to 9thSeptember 1917.

9th September 1914, enlisted& posted 5th (Reserve) Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, Service No.2357; 25th April 1915, posted 2/4th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 14th July 1915, posted 2/5th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 12th August 1916, posted BEF & attached 1/20th London Regiment; 12th August 1916, Folkestone, embarked; 12th August 1916, Boulogne, disembarked; 12th August 1916, Etaples joined 40 Infantry Base Depot; 13th September 1916, posted 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 9th September 1917, wounded in action, gun shot wound arm, concussion & posted missing.

1st October 1919, Statement of Relatives - Widow, none; Children, none; father, Edgar Lovell, 42 Newbury Road, Bromley, Kent; Mother, Mary Ann Lovell, 42 Newbury Road, Bromley, Kent; Brothers - Archie Lovell, age 21, 42 Newbury Road, Bromley, Kent; Sidney Lovell, age 18, 42 Newbury Road, Bromley, Kent; Sisters - Nellie Lovell, age 27, 74 Newbury Road, Bromley, Kent; Drothy Lovell, age 14, 42 Newbury Road, Bromley, Kent.

Buried at Menin Road South Military Cemetery, II. B. 15., Belgium & Commemorated at Bromley Methodist Church War Memorial. / Commemorated on Bromley War Memorial.

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