The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private C Skelton

Photograph by "Pearlady"

Private Charles SKELTON, G/6003, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 30th April 1916.

Born Plymouth, Devon.

19th December 1908, Register Office Tonbridge, married Lily Eliza Huber, widow.

Children - John Thomas Hooper, (stepchild) born 8th September 1908, Greenwich; Charles Stanley Skelton, born 1st April 1910, Brighton; Charles Cecil Skelton, born 22nd March 1913, Hereford; Lily Louise Skelton, born 29th March? 1914, Deptford; Rose Emily Skelton, born 4th July 1915, Deptford.

Enlisted Deptford, Kent, age 29 years & 37 days, height 5ft 2 inches, weight 114lbs, scar left wrist, some loss & decay of teeth. Resided 12 Hughes Field, Deptford. Formerly general labourer.

Home 22nd March 1915 to 29th September 1915; BEF 30th Sepember 1915 to 30th April 1916.

22nd March 1915, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 27th March 1915, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 24th April 1915, Chatham, absent from 9.30p to 9.30pm 26th April 1915, admonished, forfeits 3 days pay; 24th May 1915, Chatham, absent from Tattoo until 9.30pm 26th May 1915, 7 days confined to Barracks, forfeits 3 days pay; 4th July 1915, Fort Darland, absenting himself without leave from Tattoo until Tattoo 6th July 1915, deprived of 9 days pay, forfeits 3 days pay; 30th September 1915, posted BEF & 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 30th September 1915, embarked..

20th November 1916, pension of 24/6 a week awarded to widow & five children.

1918 December, Greenwich Registration District Lily E Skelton, married Henry Nicholls.

6th July 1920, Statement of Relatives - Widow, Lily Eliza Nicholls, 12 Hughes Field, Deptford; Children - John Thomas Hooper, 8th September 1908, 12 Hughes Field, Deptford; Charles Stanley Skelton, 1st April 1910, 12 Hughes Field, Deptford; Charles Cecil Skelton, 22nd March 1913, 12 Hughes Field, Deptford; Lily Louise Skelton, 29th March? 1914, 12 Hughes Field, Deptford; Rose Emily Skelton, 4th July 1915, 12 Hughes Field, Deptford; Brothers - one, address not known, now in Canada; Sisters - none.

Buried at Dranoutre Military Cemetery, I. D. 2., Belgium.

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