The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private C G Josceleyne

Private Christopher George JOSCELEYNE, G/12415, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 26th March 1918.

Born Woodham Walter, Essex, son of Mark Smith & Azubah Ann Joscelyne, 63 Mount Pleasant, Maldon, Essex.

1911 Census - 32 High Street, Chelmsford, Essex - Joseph Hicks, head, age 63, married, caterer, baker & confectioner, employer, born Witham, Essex; Annie Elizabeth Hicks, wife, age 63, married 35 years, 5 children, all still alive, caterer, baker & confectioner, born Stebbing, Essex; Joseph Harvey Hicks, son, age 32, single, caterer, baker & confectioner, born Chelmsford, Essex; Annie Maud Hicks, daughter, age 30, single, caterer, baker & confectioner, born Chelmsford, Essex; Percy Candell Hicks, son, age 28, single, caterer, baker & confectioner, born Chelmsford, Essex; Florence Mary Whitehead, Hicks, daughter, age 20, single, caterer, baker & confectioner, born Chelmsford, Essex; Matilda Harvey, sister in law, age 73, single, schoolmistress retired, born Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire; Harold Mark Lufkin Joceleyne, age 27, single, assistant, age 27, single, baker & confectioner, worker, born Woodham Walter, Essex; Christopher Joceleyne, assistant, age 22, single, baker & confectioner, worker, born Woodham Walter, Essex; Arthur Leggett, assistant, age 24, single, bread maker, worker, born Wix, Essex; Lilian Julia Mudd, assistant, age 22, single, waitress, caterer & confectioner, worker, born Badwell Ash, Suffolk; Ada Agnes Miller, assistant, age 20, single, waitress, caterer & confectioner, worker, born Chelmsford, Essex; Caroline Maria Smith, servant, age 45, single, domestic servant, worker, born Hackney, Middlesex; Albert Charles Richardson, assistant, age 22, baker & confectioner, worker, born Terling, Essex; Arthur Hicks, brother, age 55, retired drapers assistant, born Witham, Essex, paralysed; John Samuel Hicks, brother, age 69, grocers assistant, worker, born Witham, Essex.

1911 Census - 63 Mount Pleasant, Maldon, Essex - Mark S Joscelyne, head, age 53, married, flour mill warehouseman, miller, worker, born Woodham Walter, Essex; Azubah Ann Joscelyne, wife, age 53, married 28 years, 4 children, 3 still alive, born Tollsbury, Essex.

Enlisted Gravesend, Kent, age 27 years & 122 days, height 5ft 3¼ inches, weight 125lbs. Resided Gravesend, Kent. Formerly baker.

Home 6th January 1915 to 15th June 1916; BEF 16th June 1916 to 2nd October 1916; Home 3rd October 1916 to 4th January 1917; BEF 5th January 1917 to 26th March 1918.

6th January 1915, enlisted; 7th January 1915 to Army Reserve; 1st March 1916, mobilized; 3rd March 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 16th June 1916, posted BEF & 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 16th June 1916, embarked; 17th June 1916, Etaples, 18 Infantry Base Depot; 6th July 1916, joined Battalion, In the Field; 2nd October 1916, Boulogne, 13 General Hospital; 2nd October 1916, Hospital Ship St Denis to Engkand; 3rd October 1916, wounded, gun shot wound, neck; 3rd October 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 12th October 1916, Northamptonshire War Hospital, Duston, Northampton, gun shot wound neck seriously ill; 4th November 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 5th January 1917, posted BEF & 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 5th January 1917, embarked / disembarked; 8th January 1917, joined Battalion, "A" Company In the Field; 16th January 1918 to 31st January 1918, leave to England.

Commemorated at Pozieres Memorial, Panel 58 and 59, France.

NOTE: Regimental History & Soldiers Died in the Great War shows lastname as JOSCELEYNE; CWGC web site shows it as JOSCELYNE.

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