The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private E F Muggridge

Private Ernest Frank MUGGRIDGE, L/9712, 2nd Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died as a Prisoner of War, Angora, Turkey, with Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, 19th April 1917.

Born Seaford, Sussex, son of Frank & *Annie Maria Muggridge. *died 1893, Eastbourne, Sussex.

1896, West Ashford, Frank Muggridge, married Fanny Bartley.

Half Sisters - Ethel Fanny Muggridge; Bessie Muggridge; Florence Muggridge.

1911 Census - 34 Chichester Road, East Blatchington, Seaford, Sussex - Frank Muggridge, head, age 42, married, carpenter, building, worker, born East Peckham, Kent; Fanny Muggridge, wife, age 51, married 15 years, 3 children, all still alive, born Lenham, Kent; Bessie Muggridge, daughter, age 12, born East Blatchington, Sussex; Florence Muggridge, daughter, age 8, born East Blatchington, Sussex.

1911 Census - 6 New Place, Old Town, Eastbourne, Sussex - William Hall, head, age 69, married, jobbing gardener, at home, born Lexham, Norfolk; Clara Jane Hall, wife, age 69, married 32 years, 2 children, 1 still alive, laundress, at home, born Chiddingly, Sussex; Alice Hall, daughter, age 30, single, telephonist, G P Office, worker, born Eastbourne, Sussex; Ernest F Muggridge, grandson, age 18, single, gardener nursery, worker, born Seaford, Sussex; Alice Guy, niece, age 26, married 5 years, 2 children, both still alive, born Islington, London; Norman Guy, nephew, age 4, born Hampstead, London.

Enlisted Eastbourne, Sussex. Resided Norwood, SE.

9th September 1914, posted Asiatic Theatre of War.

Buried at Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery, XXI. Y. 9., Iraq.

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

London Gazette 30th September 1919.

SOLDIERS' AND AIRMAN'S BALANCES UNDISPOSED OF.

In pursuance of "The Regimental Debts Act, 1893," notice is hereby given that there is available for distribution amongst the Next of Kin or others entitled the sum of money set opposite to the name of each of the deceased Soldiers named in the lists which are published with this notice in the London Gazette and the "Army List," and are also to be seen at' the Regimental Depots throughout the United Kingdom.

Applications from persons supposing themselves entitled as Next of Kin should be addressed by letter to "The Secretary, War Office, Imperial Institute, South Kensington, London, S.W. 7," and marked outside "Effects."

R. H. BRADE. War Office, Sept. 30, 1919.

List CCCCCXXVII of the names of deceased Soldiers and Airman whose Personal Estate is held for distribution amongst the Next of Kin or others entitled. Effects 1918-1919.

Muggridge E F, Private, Royal West Kent Regiment. £66 3s 5d.

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