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Private E E Stow

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Private Ernest Edward STOW, G/6691, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 1st September 1916.

Born Northfleet, Kent, son of George Elijah & Emma Stow.

1911Census - 85 Charles Street, Stone, Greenhithe, Kent - George Stow, head, age 42, married, cement labourer, worker, born Laindon, Essex; Emma Stow, wife, age 41, married 18years, 3 children, 2 still alive, born Northfleet, Kent; Ernest Stow, son, age 15, single, coopers labourer, cement works, worker, born Northfleet, Kent; Thomas Stow, son, age 6, born Stone, Kent; Joseph Swain, boarder, age 34, engineers labourer, cement works, worker, born Cliffe, Kent.

Enlisted Gravesend, Kent.

23rd December 1915, posted BEF.

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 11C, France.