The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private G Ashman

Photograph by Kevin Garcia

Private Gordon ASHMAN, G/11783, "C" Company, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders, France, 13th August 1916, age 22.

Born Hythe, Kent, Son of Thomas and Mary Ann Ashman, of 6, Home Farm Cottages, St. Paul's Cray.

1911 Census - Mills Water, Four Elms, Edenbridge, Kent - Thomas Ashman, head, age 42, married, farm labourer, born Hythe, Stanford; Mary Ashman, wife, age 42, married 19 years, 3 children all still alive, born Ashford Beaver; Gordon Ashman, son, age 17, single, domestic gardener, born Hythe, Stanford; Mabel Ashman, daughter, age 11, school, born Ashford Wye; Sydney Ashman, son, age 7, born Maidstone Nettlestead.

Enlisted Sevenoaks, Kent, age 22, height 5ft 4 inches, weight 112lbs, resided Mills Water, Four Elms, Edenbridge, Kent, formerly gardener.

Home, 22nd November 1915 to 18th May 1916; BEF, 19th May 1916 to 13th August 1916.

22nd November 1915, enlisted; 22nd November 1915, to Army Reserve; 21st January1916, mobilized from Army Reserve; 22nd January 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 5th April 1916, Course of Musketry; 19th May 1916, posted BEF & 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 2nd June 1916, proceeded to join Battalion.

1st September 1919, Statement of Relatives - Father, Thomas Ashman, 6, Home Farm Cottages, St. Paul's Cray; Mother, Mary Ann Ashman, 6, Home Farm Cottages, St. Paul's Cray; Brother, Sydney Ashman, age 16, 6, Home Farm Cottages, St. Paul's Cray; Sister, Mabel Ashman, age 19, Holy Trinity Vicarage, Lennard Road, Penge; Grandparents, Rebecca Law, 12 Upper Denmark Road, South Ashford, Kent; Uncles & Aunts, Charles & Emily, Ashbee, Green Street, Lynstead, near Sittingbourne, Kent

Commemorated at Serre Road Cemetery No 2, XXV.A.11., Somme, France.

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