The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private H Bramble

Private Herbert BRAMBLE, G/4705, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, France and Flanders, presumed death on or since, 23rd April 1915, age 24.

Born Ospringe, Kent, son of Stephen and the Frances Bramble, of Gushmere, Snelling, Faversham, Kent.

1910 December Quarter , Faversham, Kent, married Elizabeth Gladys Waghorne, (1918, remarried Wilfred H Barrett), of Claygate, Marden, Kent. One child.

1911 Census - Stone Cottage, near Hanfield, Hogbens Hill, Selling, Faversham - Stephen Bramble, head, age 61, married, labourer, born Broughton Blean, Faversham, Kent; Frances Bramble, wife, age 59, married 40 years, 8 children, 7 still alive, born Ospringe, Faversham, Kent; Herbert Bramble, son, age 20, married, farm labourer, born Ospringe, Faversham, Kent; Glady E Bramble, sons wife, age 19, married 1 year, no children, born Coxheath, Maidstone, Kent.

Enlisted Faversham, Kent, resided Selling, Kent.

27th January 1915, posted BEF.

Commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Panel 45 and 47, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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