The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private F W Clack

Private Frederick William CLACK, 265621, 1st/5th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died, Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, 20th June 1918, age 32.

Born Tonbridge, Kent, son of Frederick and Harriet Clack, of 125, Vale Road, Tonbridge Road, Kent.

1911 Census - 121 Pembury Road, Tonbride, Kent - Harriett Clack, head, age 47, widow, married 25 years, 7 children, 3 still alive, born Tonbridge, Kent; Frederick William Clack, son, age 24, single, dustman, Urban District Council, born Tonbridge, Kent; Edith Beatrice Clack, daughter, age 18, single, general servant domestic, born Tonbridge, Kent; Minnie Clack, daughter, age 5, born Tonbridge, Kent.

Enlisted Tonbridge, Kent.

Buried at Baghdad (North Gate) Cemetery, XI. H. 10., Iraq.

Commemorated on Tonbridge War Memorial - Tonbridge War Memorial - The original World War I memorial at the Junction of Pembury Road and Quarry Hill. The names were later re-inscribed in the new Memorial Garden in Bradford Street.

From Tonbridge History - Frederick William Clack was born at Tonbridge in 1886, the son of Frederick and Harriet Clack. In 1911 lived in 121, Pembury Road. Before the war Frederick worked as a dustman for the council and he also was a Territorial soldier serving with the 1st Battalion Royal West Kent [T.E.]. He attested at Tonbridge on 23rd November 1914 for the Kent Cyclist [Reserve] Battalion and was subsequently sent to India on 2nd February 1917, and then transferred to the 1st/5th Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment on 13th November 1917. He served in the Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, leaving India on 5th December 1917 and arriving at Basra on the 11th December. He became ill on the 8th June 1918, initially diagnosed with pleurisy, and died on 20th June 1918 on pneumonia at Baghdad. He is buried at Baghdad [North Gate] War Cemetery.

London Gazette 30th May 1919.

SOLDIERS BALANCES UNDISPOSED OF

In pursuance of "The Regimental Debts Act, 1893", notice is hereby given that there is available for distribution amongst the Next of Kin or others entitled the sum of money set opposite to the name of each of the deceased Soldiers and Airmen named in the lists which are published in the London Gazette and the "Army List" and are also to be seen at the Regimental Depots throughout the United Kingdom.

Applications from persons supposing themselves entitled as Next of Kin should be addressed by letter to "Secretary, War Office, Imperial Institute, South Kensington, London, SW7" and marked outside "Effects".

R H BRADE War Office May 30th 1919.

List CCCCCXXIII of the Names of deceased Soldiers and Airman whose Personal Estate is held for distribution amongst the Next of Kin or others entitled - Effects 1918-19.

Clack F Pte. Royal West Kent Regiment. £22 12s 1d

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