The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private C Coombe

Private Charles COOMBE, G/15064, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 7th November 1918.

Born, London, son of Florence Coombe.

22nd June 1913, Bedfont, Middlesex, married May Florence Cakery, spinster, 348 Richmond Road, Twickenham.

Children - Constance May Coombe, born 25th October 1913, Hampstead; Cyril Charles Coombe, born 3rd April 1916, Hampstead.

Enlisted Hampstead, London, NW, age 28 years & 3 months, height 5ft 6½ inches, weight 136lbs, scar left knee. Resided Hampstead Constitutional Club, Holly Bush Hill, Hampstead / 348 Richmond Road, Twickenham / Bedfont, Middlesex / Talavena, Staines Road, Bedfont, Middlesex. Formerly club steward.

Home 16th February 1916, to 2nd November 1916; BEF 3rd November 1916 to 7th November 1918.

16th February 1916, enlisted; 17th February 1916, to Army Reserve; 15th May 1916, mobilized & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 20th May 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 1st November 1916, awarded 21 days Field Punishment No.2. for absence; 3rd November 1916, posted BEF; 4th November 1916, embarked / disembarked; 24th November 1916, 40 Infantry Base Depot; 25th November 1916, joined Battalion; 11th August 1917, sick, evacuated; 12th August 1917, ICT feet, admitted 22 General Hospital, Camiens; 22nd August 1917, admitted 6 Convalescent Depot; 6th October 1917, 40 Infantry Base Depot, Etaples from 5 Convalescent Camp; 10th October 1917, to Battalion; 13th October 1917, joined Battalion; 3rd April 1918, sick in the Field; 9th April 1918, admitted 72 Field Ambulance; 10th April 1918, Abbeyville, admitted 3 Australian General Hospital, ICT right leg; 12th May 1918, Cayeux, admitted Convalescent Depot, I.C.T. right leg; 24th July 1918, joined 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, in the Field.

2nd June? 1919, pension of 25/5? a week awarded to widow & two? children.

20th September 1919, Statement of Relatives - Widow, May Florence Coombe, Talavena, Staines Road, Bedfont, Middlesex; Children - Constance May Coombe, born 25th October 1913, Talavena, Staines Road, Bedfont, Middlesex; Cyril Charles Coombe, born 3rd April 1916, Talavena, Staines Road, Bedfont, Middlesex; Mother Florence Coombe, Emanuel Vicarage, Hornsey Road, Holloway, N. London.

Commemorated at Vis-en-Artois Memorial, Panel 7, Pas de Calais, France.

May Florence Vigurs (formerly Coombe, nee Cakery)

This page was last updated on 01-Feb-2018.