The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private E T Wayling

Inscription -

"THE LORD GAVETH & THE LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY

BLESSED BE THE LORD"

Photograph by "International Wargraves Photography Project"

Private Ernest Thomas WAYLING, G/9136, 10th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, Flanders France, 9th June 1917.

27th April 1890, born Abbey Wood, Kent, son of James & Maria Wayling, of 104, Corleylands Road, Sidcup, Kent.

29th June 1896, Purrett Road School, Ernest THomas Wayling, father James Wayling, 1 Bostall Lane, Abbey Wood

1st August 1897, Brenchley Kent, baptism of Ernest Thomas Wayling, son of James & Maria Wayling.

1911 Census - 1 Kidbrook Lane, 1 New Cottage, Blackheath SE - James Wayling, head, age 50, married, carman, husband, worker, born Berkshire; Maria Wayling, wife, age 48, married 27 years, 12 chilkdren, 11 still alive, wife, born Brenchley; E. Thomas Wayling, son, age 21, single, farm carter, worker, born Abbey Wood; William Wayling, son, age 17, single, farm labourer, worker, born Abbey Wood; Henery Wayling, son, age 13, school, born Abbey Wood; Mable Wayling, daughter, age 11, school, born Abbey Wood; Nellie Wayling, daughter, age 7, school, born Blackheath; John Wayling, son, age 5, born Blackheath; Maudie Wayling, daughter, age 3, born Blackheath; Alice Baldry Wayling, grand daughter, 4 months, born Abbey Wood / Greenwich.

Enlisted Woolwich, SE. Resided Sidcup, Kent.

Buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, XV. J. 6A., Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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