The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private F H Woodcock

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Private Frank Herbert WOODCOCK, L/10465, 9th Battalion attached to 2nd  Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of Cholera, No 8 British Field Ambulance, Indian Expeditionary Force "D", 30th April 1916.

Born Pluckley, Kent, son of Albert King & Celia Woodcock, Camden Road, Pluckley, Kent. / The Thorn(e), Pluckley, Kent.

30th April 1899, Parish Church, Pluckley, baptism of Frank Herbert Woodcock, son of Albert King & Celia Woodcock.

1911 Census - Camden Road, Pluckley, Kent - Albert Woodcock, head, age 52, married, farm labourer, worker, born Bethersden, Kent; Celia Woodcock, wife, age 50, married 29 years, 13 children, 9 still alive, born Pluckley, Kent; Nance? Woodcock, daughter, age 22, single, at home, born Little Chart, Kent; Alfred Woodcock, son, age 19, single, farm labourer, worker, born Little Chart, Kent; Bertie Woodcock, son, age 13, born Pluckley, Kent; Frank Woocock, son, age 12, born Pluckley, Kent; William Woodcock, son, age 10, born Pluckley, Kent.

Enlisted Croydon, Surrey, age 19 years & 6 months, height 5ft 5 inches, weight 128lbs, fresh complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, scar under left eye. Formerly Van Guard.

Home, 28th August 1914 to 8th December 1915; Indian Expeditionary Force "D", 9th December 1915 to 30th April 1916.

28th August 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 29th August 1914, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 25th October 1915 to 29th October 1915, Military Wards, Shoreham Infirmary, Sussex, abscess on neck; 18th November 1915, Shoreham, absent from Tattoo till 10.30pm, 3 days confined to Barracks;  9th December,  transferred to 2nd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 10th December 1915, Keynsham Dockyard, embarked, "H T Kinfauns Castle"; 8th January 1916, Ashar, disembarked.

9th June 1919, Statement of Relatives - Widow, none; Children, none; Father, Albert Woodcock, The Thorn, Pluckley, Kent; Mother, Celia Woodcock, The Thorn, Pluckley, Kent; Brothers - Alfred George Woodcock, age 27, The Thorn, Pluckley, Kent; William Woodcock, age 26, The Thorn, Pluckley, Kent; Bertie Woodcock, age 22, The Thorn, Pluckley, Kent; Sisters - Lily Woodcock, age 24, The Thorn, Pluckley, Kent.

Buried at Amara War Cemetery, XXI. H. 4., Iraq.

NOTE from CWGC -  In 1933, all of the headstones were removed from this cemetery when it was discovered that salts in the soil were causing them to deteriorate. Instead a screen wall was erected with the names of those buried in the cemetery engraved upon it. 

Commemorated Pluckley War Memorial