The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private C Welfare

Photograph by "Marvin & Samme Templin"

Private Charles WELFARE, G/17945, 10th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 7th June 1917.

Born Brighton, Sussex.

21st June 1903, Brighton, married Grace Mary Botting, spinster, 43 Cowper Street, Hove, Sussex / Y.W.C.A., Castilian Street, Northampton.

1911 Census - 17 Medina Villas, Hove - Charles Welfare, head, age 29, married, fishmongers assistant, worker, born Brighton, Sussex; Grace Welfare, wife, age 28, married 7 years, born Brighton, Sussex.

Enlisted Hove, Sussex, age 39 years & 60 days, height 5ft 5 inches, weight 119lbs, taattoo marks on left & right forearms. Resided 72 Church Road, Hove, Sussex / 43 Cowper Street, Hove, Sussex / 11 Alexandra Villas, Dyke Road, Brighton, Sussex. Formerly fishmonger.

Home 7th November 1915 to 13th October 1916; BEF 14th October 1916 to 7th June 1917.

7th November 1915, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal Sussex Regiment; 16th November 1915, posted 14th Service Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, Service No.5093; 1st September 1916, transferred to 97th Training Reserve Battalion, Service No.TR/10/33045; 14th October 1916, transferred to Royal West Kent Regiment; 14th October 1916, posted BEF; 25th November 1916, posted 10th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

6th January 1918, date when Separation Allowance of 9/- a week & Allotment of Pay of 3/6 a week payable to wife will cease.

7th January 1918, pension of 13/9 a week awarded to widow.

11th June 1920, Statement of Relatives - Widow, Grace Welfare, 47 Roe Road, Northampton; Father, none; Mother, none; Brothers - Stephen Welfare, Maidstone; Fred Welfare, Brighton; Arthur Welfare, Australian; Archibald Welfare, Brighton; Sisters - Elizabeth, East Dulwich; Florence Welfare, Brighton.

Commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Panel 45 and 47, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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