The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private E E James

Inscription - "SAFE IN THY KEEPING O LORD"

Photograph by “Phillipe DEGROOTE”

Private Evan Ernest JAMES, G/29371, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 70276, Devon Regiment), killed in action, Flanders France, 2nd June 1918, age 19.

1898, born Heckfield, Hampshire, son of Watkin James and Edith James, of The Post Office. Heckfield, Winchfield, Hampshire.

1911 Census - The Post Office. Heckfield, Basingstoke, Hampshire - Watkin James James, head, age 50, married, grocer, employer, at home, Bettws Bledrws, Cardigan, Wales; Edith James, wife, age 45, married 21 years, 5 children, all still alive, born Charmouth, Dorset; Edith James, daughter, age 20, single, grocers assistant, born Paddington, London; Annie May James, daughter, age 17, single, born Westminster, London; Elsie Anna James, daughter, age 9, school, born Heckfield, Hampshire; Watkin John James, son, age 5, born Heckfield, Hampshire; Horace Jones, servant, age 19, grocers assistant, worker, born Upper Assenden, Oxford.

Enlisted Winchester, Hampshire.

Buried at Ribemont Communal Cemetery Extension, IV. B. 7., Somme, France.

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

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