The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private B R Streatfield

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Private Benjamin Ralph STREATFIELD, G/1558, 7th   Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders, France 1st July  1916, age 22.

18th February 1894, born Ask Oaks, Kent, son of Walter and Elizabeth Mercy Streatfield, of Bougher's Cottage, Stansted, Wrotham, Kent.

1911 Census - Black House, Ash, Kent - Ernest Streatfield, head, age 25, married, assistant forester, on estate, worker, born Stansted, Kent; Minnie Streatfield, wife, age 26, married 2 years, 1 child, still alive, born Ryarsh, Kent; Ernest Streatfield, son, age 1, born Stansted, Kent; Benjamin, Streatfield, brother, age 17, single, horse driver on farm, born Ash, Kent.

Enlisted Tonbridge. Resided Wrotham, Kent.

26th July 1915, posted BEF.

Commemorated at  Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 11 C, Somme, France / Stansted War Memorial.