The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private E Wood

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Private Ernest WOOD, G/5068, 1st Battalion  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 20878, Grenadier Guards), killed in action, Flanders France, 5th May 1915, age 36.

Born Molash, Kent, son of Thomas Wood, of Molash, near Chilham, Canterbury, Kent.

1911 Census - No.3. Convent Cottages, Reading Street, St Peters, Broadstairs, Kent. - George Harry Hogston, head, age 39, Husband, married, cowman on farm, farm, worker, Dunton, Buckinghamshire; Maria Louise Hogston, wife, age 41, married 14 years, 3 children, all still alive, born Newbury, Berkshire; Richard Victor George Hogston, son, age 13, school, born Bath, Somerset; Cecil William John Hogston, son, age 12, school, born Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire; Hope Elizabeth Annie Hogston, daughter, age 11, school, born Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire; Ernest Wood, friend, age 32, single, labourer, farm, worker, born Molash, Kent.

Enlisted Ramsgate, Kent.  Resided Broadstairs, Kent.

22nd April 1915, posted BEF.

Sole Legatee - Mrs Maria Louise Hogston.

Buried  at Oosttaverne Wood Cemetery, VIII. H. 16., Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Commemorated Broadstairs War Memorial.