The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private G E Grover

Private George Ernest GROVER, G/10661, 11th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 15th September 1916.

Born Deptford, London, SE, son of Laura Grover, 73 Knowles Hill Crescent, Lewisham, SE.

1911 Census - 73 Knowles Hill Crescent, Lewisham, SE - George Alfred Grover, head, age 37, married, machinist, fire engine maker, worker, born Deptford, Kent; Laura Albretha Grover, wife, age 36, married 16 years, 9 children, all still alive, born Lee, Kent; Cyril Alfred Grover, son, age 16, single, engineers apprentice, fire engine maker, worker, born New Cross, Kent; George Ernest Grover, son, age 14, boot makers errand boy, worker, born Deptford, Kent; Albert Edward Grover, son, age 12, school & part time boot makers errand boy, born Greenwich, Kent; Dorothy Grover, daughter, age 11, school, born Greenwich, Kent; Alfred Grover, son, age 8, school, born Lewisham, Kent; Laura Grover, daughter, age 6, born Greenwich, Kent; Sydney Grover, son, age 4, born Greenwich, Kent; Ernest Grover, son, age 2, born Lewisham, Kent; Ethel Grover, daughter, age 1, born Lewisham, Kent.

Enlisted Lewisham, SE, age 19 years & 180 days, height 5ft 6 inches. Resided 73 Knowles Hill Crescent, Lewisham, SE. Formerly machine hand.

3rd November 1915, enlisted & posted 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 2nd May 1916, Southampton, embarked; 3rd May 1916, Havre, disembarked; 15th September 1916, posted missing.

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 11C, France.

NOTE: regimental History & Soldiers Died in the Great War show Service No. as G/10661; CWGC web site show it as G/10881.

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