The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private E R Waterman

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Private Ernest Robert WATERMAN, 201034, (TF/3426), 2nd / 4th  Battalion  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, Nasrieh School Hospital, Cairo, Egypt, 25th April 1917, age 32.

Born East Farleigh, Kent, son of Stephen and Mary Ann Waterman, 3, Tovil Hill, Tovil, Maidstone, Kent.

1911 Census - 56 Church Road, Tovil, Maidstone, Kent - Stephen Waterman, head, age 58, married, carman, Paper Mills, worker, born Marden, Kent; Mary Ann Waterman, wife, age 60, married 35 years, 9 children, 8 still alive, born Hunton, Kent; Ernest Waterman, son, age 24, single, labourer, Paper Mills, worker, born East Farleigh, Kent; Fanny Waterman, daughter, age 21, single, born East Farleigh, Kent; Stephen Waterman, son, age 18, single, labourer, Paper Mills, worker, born East Farleigh, Kent; Kathleen Waterman, granddaughter, age 4 months, born Maidstone, Kent.

Enlisted Tonbridge, Kent.  Resided Tovil, Kent.

9th August 1915, posted Balkans Theatre of War.

Buried at Cairo War Memorial Cemetery, F. 223., Egypt.

NOTE: Soldiers Died in the Great War shows date of death as 25th April 1917; CWGC web site shows 26th April 1917.