The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private E Cheeseman

Private Ernest CHEESEMAN, G/2130, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 3rd May 1917, age 21.

Born Deptford, Kent, son of Charles Philip & Selina Jane Cheesman, of 3, The Mount, Bidborough, Tunbridge Wells, Kent / The Lodge, Huntley, Tunbridge Wells, Kent / The Grange, Bidborough Grange, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

15th January 1896, St John, Deptford., Lewisham, baptism of Ernest Cheesman, son of Charles Philip, (railway porter), & Selina Jane Cheesman, 87 Ravensbourne Street.

1911 Census - 46 Chandler Road, Bexhill on Sea, Sussex - Charles Philip Cheesman, head, age 46, married, carter railway, South Eastern & Chatham Railway, born Frant, Sussex; Selina Jane Cheesman, wife, age 46, married 17 years, 2 children, both still alive, born Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Ernest Cheesman, son, age 15, cycle apprentice, born Deptford, London; Harry Stanley Cheesman, son, age 4, born Bexhill on Sea, Sussex; Percy James Holmes, boarder, age 23, single, porter railway, South Eastern & Chatham Railway, born Blackheath, Surrey.

Enlisted Tunbridge Wells, Kent, age 19, height 6ft ½ inch, fresh complexion, blue eyes, dark hair. Formerly cycle maker.

Home, 4th September 1914 to 25th July 1915; BEF France 26th July 1915 to 3rd July 1916; Home, 4th July 1916 to 11th January 1917; BEF France, 12th January 1917 to 3rd May 1917.

4th September 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 9th September 1914, posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 1st July 1916, wounded; 4th July 1916, General Hospital, Havre, gun shot wound right hand, to England Hospital Ship "Egypt"; 4th July 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 6th July 1916 to 26th September 1916, Bath War Hospital with shrapnel wound hand; 5th October 1916, posted Eastern Command Depot, Shoreham on Sea, Sussex, had a course of special massage; 10th December 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 12th January 1917, posted BEF & 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 13th January 1917, embarked / disembarked; 15th January 1917, joined battalion, "B" Company.

8th July 1919, Statement of Relatives - Father, Charles Philip Cheesman; The Grange, Bidborough Grange, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Mother, Selina Jane Cheesman, The Grange, Bidborough Grange, Tunbridge Wells, Kent; Brother - Harry Stanley Cheesman, age 13, The Grange, Bidborough Grange, Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

Commemorated at Arras Memorial, Bay 7, Pas de Calais, France.

NOTE: Regimental History & Soldiers Died in the Great War show name as CHEESEMAN; CWGC web site show it as CHEESMAN.

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