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Private E W Sheldrick

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Private Edward William SHELDRICK, G/18348, 11th  Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, (gun shot wound, chest penetrating, gun shot wound left arm), No.1.M.D.S., 3rd Corps, France, 11th October 1916.

Born Wandsworth, SW. son of Arthur & Margaret Sheldrick.

1911 Census - 12 Flavell Road, East Hill, Wandsworth, SW. - Arthur Sheldrick, head, age 47, married, blind maker, worker, born Putney, Surrey; Margaret Sheldrick, wife, age 45, married 24 years, 3 children, all still alive, born Wandsworth, Surrey; Arthur Thomas Sheldrick, son, age 23, single, Railway Clerk, worker, born Wandsworth, Surrey; Edward William Sheldrick, son, age 19, single, clerk, Carriers, worker, born Wandsworth, Surrey; Lilian Margaret Sheldrick, daughter, age 13, school, born Wandsworth, Surrey; Charles Lewis, boarder, age 54, widower, Tun-man, Distillery, worker, born Purton, Wiltshire; Emma Watson, visitor, age 52, married, born Wandsworth, Surrey; Beatrice Alice Watson, visitor, age 21, single, born Wandsworth, Surrey.

16th March 1913, Christ Church, Battersea, Wandsworth, SW, Edward William Sheldrick, married Alice Elizabeth Catherine Sparkes, spinster.

Children - Edward Fuller Sheldrick, born 23rd September 1915, Wandsworth.

Enlisted Wandsworth, SW, age 24 years & 180 days, height 5ft 5½ inches, weight 140lbs, feet somewhat flat, few bad teeth, mole beneath angle of jaw left side. Resided 16 Coleford Road, Wandsworth / 10 Ebner Street, Wandsworth, SW. Formerly "Clerk Carrying".

Home 8th December 1915 to 5th SEptember 1916; BEF 6th September 1916 to 11th October 1916.

8th December 1915, enlisted; 9th December 1915, to Army Reserve; 13th April 1916, mobilized; 13th April 1916, posted 12th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, Service No. G/14565; 1st September 1916, transferred to 23rd Brigade, 99th Training Reserve Battalion; 6th September 1916, posted BEF & embarked; 18th September 1916, joined 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, In the Field;

28th May 1917, Pension of 18/9 a week awarded to widow & one child.

1917 December, Camberwell Registration District, Alice E C Sheldrick, married Albert H J Hutchings.

6th January 1920, Statement of Relatives - Widow, Alice Elizabeth Catherine Hutchings, 73 Swaffield Road, The Grove, Earlsfield, SW; Children - Edward Fuller Sheldrick, 73 Swaffield Road, The Grove, Earlsfield, SW; Father, Arthur Sheldrick, 12 Flavell Road, East Hill, Wandsworth; Mother, Margaret Sheldrick, 12 Flavell Road, East Hill, Wandsworth; Brothers - Arthur Sheldrick, age 32, 12 Flavell Road, East Hill, Wandsworth; Sisters - Lilian Margaret Sheldrick, age 22, 12 Flavell Road, East Hill, Wandsworth.

Buried at  Becourt Military Cemetery, I. X. 32., Becordel-Becourt, Somme, France.