The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private C Woodward

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Private Claude WOODWARD, G/10390, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment,  died of wounds received in action, (gun shot wounds chest & left thigh), 61 Casualty Clearing Station, France, 24th August 1918.

Born Forest Hill, Middlesex, son of Ernest & Clara Charlotte Woodward, of Gladys Villa, 7, Johnson Road, Bromley Common, Kent.

1911 Census - Bird Holm, Keston, Kent - Ernest Woodward, head, age 44, married, Chief Cashier, Insurance Company, born Peckham, Surrey; Clara Woodward, wife, age 42, married 21 years, 7 children, all still alive, born Forest Hil, Kent; Dorothy Woodward, daughter, age 19, single, born Islington, Middlesex; Cyril Woodward, son, age 13, school, born Forest Hill, Kent;  Claud Woodward, son, age 11, school, born Forest Hill, Kent; Hilda Woodward, daughter, age 2, born Keston, Kent; Helen Woodward, daughter, age 2, born Keston, Kent.

Enlisted  Chatham, Kent, age 19 years & 72 days, height 5ft 6½ inches, weight 113lbs.  Resided Bird Holm, Keston, Kent.

Allotment of Pay 3/6 a week, payable to Mother.

Home, 26th October 1915 to 2nd May 1916; BEF, 3rd May 1916 to 11th August 1917; Home, 12th August 1917 to 3rd April 1918; BEF, 4th April 1918 to 24th August 1918.

25th October 1915, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 31st October 1915, posted 9th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 30th December 1915, posted 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 2nd February 1916 to 5th February 1916, Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich, Catarrh; 12th August 1917, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 12th August 1917 to 18th September 1917, Lichfield Military Hospital, gun shot wound left knee; 18th September 1917 to 5th October 1917, Aux Hospital, gun shot wound left knee; 6th to 15th October 1917, furlough granted by Military Hospital, Lichfield; 15th October 1917 to 4th February 1918, gun shot wound left knee; 13th January 1918, absent from Church Parade, 4 days confined to Barracks;  4th April 1918, posted BEF & 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 4th April 1918, Infantry Base Depot "J"; 7th April 1918, posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 19th August 1918, appointed paid Lance Corporal; 19th August 1918, appointed Acting Corporal.

17th August 1919, Statement of Relatives - Father, dead; Mother, Clara C Woodward, Gladys Villa, 7, Johnson Road, Bromley Common; Brothers - Fred Woodward, age 29, HMS? P.57.C/O? PO London; Leslie Woodward, age 26, HMS Carlisle, GPO London; Cyril Woodward, age 21, HMS Teemeill? GPO London; Sisters - Dorothy Woodward, age 28, 7, Johnson Road, Bromley Common; Kathleen Woodward, age 11, 7, Johnson Road, Bromley Common; Helen Woodward, age 11, 7, Johnson Road, Bromley Common; Eileen Woodward, age 8, 7, Johnson Road, Bromley Common. 

Buried at Daours Communal Cemetery Extension, VI. C. 7., Somme, France.  Commemorated on Bromley War Memorial. / Keston War Memorial.

NOTE: Regimental History & Soldiers Died in the Great War both show rank as Private; CWGC web site shows rank as Corporal.