The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private C H Hayward

Inscription - "GOD'S WILL BE DONE"

Photograph by "Claude Laignel"

Private Colston Henry HAYWARD, G/24706, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 23351, Somerset Light Infantry), died, Flanders France, 9th April 1917, age 27.

13th November 1889, born Hotwells, Bristol, Gloucestershire, son of John William and Julia Grace Hayward, of 8, Hope Chapel Hill, Hotwells, Bristol, Gloucestershire.

1911 Census - 8, Hope Chapel Hill, Hotwells, Bristol, Gloucestershire - John William Hayward, head, age 54, married, mariner, tug boat, worker, born Bristol, Gloucestershire; Julia Grace Hayward, wife, age 56, married 23 years, 2 children, both still alive, born Bristol, Gloucestershire; John William Hayward, son, age 22, single, mariner, worker, born Bristol, Gloucestershire; Colston Henry Hayward, son, age 21, single, office clerk, born Bristol, Gloucestershire.

Enlisted Bristol, Gloucestershire.

Buried at St Hilaire Cemetery, II. G. 2., Frevent, France.

NOTE: Soldiers Died in the Great War show Battalion as 7th; CWGC web show it as 6th.

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