The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private E C Holmes

Inscription - "TILL WE MEET AGAIN"

Photograph by "Simon Tiron"

Private Edwin Charles HOLMES, G/15298, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 19th September 1918, age 22.

Born Queenborough, Kent, son of Edwin John & Elizabeth Ann Holmes, of 159, High Street, Queenborough, Kent.

1911 Census - 89, High Street, Queenborough, Kent - Edwin John Holmes, head, age 36, married, fat refiner, chemical manufacturers, worker, born Queenborough, Kent; Elizabeth Ann Holmes, wife, age 36, married 17 years, 6 children, 5 still alive, born Sittingbourne, Kent; Edwin Charles Holmes, son, age 14, assisting fat refiner, chemical manufacturers, worker, born Queenborough, Kent; Cuthbert John Holmes, son, age 12, school, born Queenborough, Kent; Cissie Miriam Holmes, daughter, age 9, born Queenborough, Kent; Annie Elizabeth Holmes, daughter, age 6, born Queenborough, Kent; Alfred William Holmes, son, age 1, born Queenborough, Kent.

Enlisted Canterbury, Kent.

Buried at Unicorn Cemetery, IV. H. 10., Vend'huile, France. Commemorated Queenborough War Memorial.

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