The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private C H Avis

Photograph by "Lady Linda"

Private Charles Herbert AVIS, G/11120, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, Flanders, France, 11th August 1917, age 35.

Born Fletching, Sussex. Native of Horsted Keynes, East Grinstead, Sussex.

1911 Census - Selsfield Common, West Hoathly, Sussex - Henry Branch, head, age 34, married, gardener, born Worth, Sussex; Lilian Branch, wife, age 31, married 8 years, 3 children, all still alive, born Luton, Kent; Alfred David Branch, son, age 7, school, born Worth, Sussex; Arthur Henry Branch, son, age 4, born Worth, Sussex; Rose Lilian Branch, daughter, age 9 months, born West Hoathly, Sussex; Charles Herbert Avis, boarder, age 28, single, domestic gardener, born Fletching, Sussex.

Husband of Jessie Beatrice Kate Avis, of The Withy Pitts, Turner's Hill, Crawley Down, Sussex.

Enlisted Croydon, Surrey, resided South Norwood.

Buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, XVII.J.17A., Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Commemorated at St Giles Church, Horsted Keynes War Memorial.

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