The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private E H Griffin

Private Edwin Harold GRIFFIN, L/10740, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, death presumed on or after, 26th September 1915.

Born Cricklewood, London, NW, son of Albert Edwin & Ada Jane Griffin, 6 Lord Street, Brierfield, Burnley, Lancashire.

1911 Census - 14 Cotton Street, Padiham, Burnley, Lancashire - Albert Edwin Griffin, head, age 40, married, engine driver, cotton mill, cotton factory, born Rugby, Warwickshire; Ada Jane Griffin, wife, age 36, married 17 years, 8 children, 6 still alive, born Leatherhead, Surrey; Eveline Edith Griffin, daughter, age 16, single, weaver cotton mill, born Cricklewood, London; Ethel Minnie Griffin, daughter, age 14, weaver cotton mill, born West Hampstead, London; Edwin Harold Griffin, son, age 12, school, part time reacher? in Cotton Mill, born Cricklewood, London; Ernest Frederick Griffin, son, age 10, school, born Cricklewood, London; Edgar George Griffin, son, age 7, school, born Burnley, Lancashire; Elsie Annie Griffin, daughter, age 5, school, born Burnley, Lancashire.

Enlisted Accrington, Lancashire, age 18 years & 3months, height 5ft 2½, weight 105lbs, fresh complexion, grey eyes, dark brown hair. Resided 41 Burnley Road, Brierfield, Burnley, Lancashire. Formerly weaver.

Home 19th April 1915 to 29th August 1915; BEF 30th August 1915 to 26th September 1915.

19th April 1915, enlisted; 20th April 1915, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 24th April 1915, posted 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 30th August 1915, posted BEF; 26th September 1915, posted wounded & missing.

13th June 1919, Statement of Relatives - Widow, none; Children, none; Father, Albert Edwin Griffin, 41 Burnley Road, Brierfield, Lancashire; Mother, deceased; Brothers - Ernest Frederick Griffin, age 18, 41 Burnley Road, Brierfield, Lancashire; Edgar George Griffin, age 15, 41 Burnley Road, Brierfield, Lancashire; Sisters - Eveline Edith Atkinson, age 24, 41 Burnley Road, Brierfield, Lancashire; Ethel Minnie Griffin, age 22, 41 Burnley Road, Brierfield, Lancashire; Elsie Annie Griffin, age 15, 41 Burnley Road, Brierfield, Lancashire.

Commemorated at Loos Memorial, Panel 95 to 97, France.

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