The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private F C Tween

Photograph by "Claude Laignel"

Private Frederick Charles TWEEN, G/2933, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, Flanders France, 14th March 1916.

Born Penge, Kent, son of George & Lucy Ann Tween.

1st January 1896, Christ Church, Penge, Surrey, baptism of Frederick Charles, Tween, son of George & Lucy Ann Tween.

1911 Census - 88 Churchfields Road, Beckenham, Kent - George Tween, head, age 42, married, jobbing gardener, own account, born Theydon, Bois, Essex; Lucy Ann Tween, wife, age 39, married 22 years, 10 children, 7 still alive, born Penge, Surrey; Florence Georgina Tween, daughter, age 17, single, domestic servant, (worker crossed out), born Penge, Surrey; Frederick Charles, Tween, son, age 15, single, errand boy & shop, worker, Austin John John Tween, son, age 13, school & houseboy, born Beckenham, Kent; Charlotte Tween, daughter, age 11, school, born South Norwood, Surrey; Thomas Tween, son, age 8, school, born Beckenham, Kent; Leonard Victor Tween, son, age 4, born Penge, Surrey; Arthur James Tween, son, age 1, born Penge, Surrey; William George Ottaway, wifes mother, age 75, widower, labourer on roads, worker, born Challock, Kent.

Enlisted Bromley, Kent, age 19 years & 11 months, height 5ft 10 inches, weight 134lbs, pale complexion, grey eyes, light brown hair, scar right groin, scar right forearm, 2 scars back, 1 mole right buttock, 1 mole right biceps, 1 mole abdomen, Tattoo P on left forearm. Resided 75 Ravenscroft Road, Beckenham, Kent / 34 Tennyson Road, Penge, SE20. Formerly engraver.

Home 9th September 1914 to 21st June 1915; BEF 22nd June 1915 to 14th March 1916.

9th September 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 26th September 1914, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 24th October 1914, posted 9th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 26th February 1915, Chatham, not complying with an order, 4 days confined to Barracks1st April 1915, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 19th June 1915, Fort Darland, absent from 2.00pm until Tattoo 21st June 1915, 3 days Field Punishment, forfeits 3 days pay; 22nd June 1915, posted BEF.

7th December 1915, Report on Accidental or Self Inflicted Wounds - Location , Nature & Severity of Wounds, left thigh, small incised wound, slight & severity of wounds; this man was ??? 10 yards ???? and another man throwing and should have kept under cover ????? haystack and was struck together with another man by fragments ????? loded bomb 2nd Lt Dove was present ????? the accident; Whether the man is considered to blame - not keeping under cover; this man has been dealt with for carelessness.

Buried at Bethune Town Cemetery, V. B. 29., Pas de Calais, France.

Could be connected to Pte J Tween

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