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Private E A Wimsett

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Private Ernest Alfred WIMSETT, G/17987, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 3rd October 1917, age 40.

Born Eastwell, Kent, son of David Alfred & (Mary) Jane Wimsett, of 61, Wincheap Street, Canterbury, Kent.

12th December 1880, Ebony Kent, baptism of Ernest Alfred Wimsett, son of David Alfred & Mary Jane Wimsett.

1911 Census - Canterbury Union Workhouse, Nunnery Fields, Canterbury, Kent - Ernest Wimsett, Servant, age 30, single, Workhouse Labor Master, born Eastwell, Kent.

Formerly served 3 years East Kent Yeomanry, 15th Battalion, 56 Company, Service No.26856. 20th February 1901, enlisted trumpeter. age 21 years & 4 months, height 5ft 5½ inches, weight 154lbs, fresh complexion, grey eyes, brown hair. South Africa 9th March 1901 to 1st August 1902; 9th August 1902, discharged, termination of Engagement. Casualty Frobisher Bay, South Africa.

18th August 1913, children - Elsie Violet Wimsett, born  Strood.

24th June 1915, children - Joan Wimsett, born Strood.

Enlisted Gravesend, Kent, age 38 years, height 5ft 5¼ inches, weight 165lbs. Resided 90, Parrock Street, Gravesend, Kent. Formerly labourer.

Home 11th December 1915 to 12th October 1916; BEF 13th October 1916 to 3rd October 1917.

11th December 1915, enlisted; 11th December 1915, to Army Reserve;

7th May 1916, children - Ida May Wimsett, born Strood.

17th June 1916, mobilized; 18th June 1916, posted 14th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, Service No.6168; 1st September 1916, transferred to 97th Training Reserve, Service TR/10/33115;

9th September 1916, Farnham, Surrey Registry Office, Ernest Alfred Wimsett, bachelor, Private 6168, Royal Sussex Regiment, age 39, Badgers Barracks, Aldershot, married Violet May Shimeld, spinster, age 30, 90, Parrock Street, Gravesend. 

7th October 1916, The Registry Office Gravesend, Ernest Alfred Wimsett, married Violet May Shimeld, spinster, 90, Parrock Street, Gravesend, Kent.

13th October 1916, posted BEF & transferred to Royal West Kent Regiment; 14th October 1916, embarked; 30th October 1916, joined Battalion "B" Company.

14th November 1916,  children - Ernest George Wimsett, born Gravesend.

29th April 1918, pension of 28/9 awarded to widow & four children.

Commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 106 to 108, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

NOTE: Regimental History & Soldiers Died in the Great War both spell lastname WINSETT: CWGC web site shows it as WIMSETT.