The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private H G Nash

Photograph by "Marvin & Samme Templin"

Private Harry George NASH, G/11306, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, (fallen & buried in the neighbourhood of MasMieres, Grave No.15), France, death assumed on or since, 30th November 1917.

Born Sevenoaks, Kent, son of George & Alice Maud Nash, 3 Hortus Place, St Johns, Sevenoaks, Kent / 3 Colesglove Cottages, Goffs Lane, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire / 4 Hortus Place, St Johns, Sevenoaks, Kent / 1 Coles Grove Cottages, Goffs Lane, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire / 14 Bradbourne Road, Sevenoaks, Kent.

15th November 1896, Wrotham, Kent, baptism of Harry George Nash, son of George & Alice Maud Nash.

1911 Census - 3 Hortus Place, St Johns, Sevenoaks, Kent - George Nash, head, age 41, married, carpenter & joiner, building, worker, born Wrotham, Kent; Alice Maud Nash, wife, age 38, married 15 years, 4 children, all still alive, born Sittingbourne, Kent; Harry George Nash, son, age 14, house boy, domestic, born Sevenoaks, Kent; John Hubert Nash, son, age 12, school, born Sevenoaks, Kent; Alice Nash, daughter, age 9, born Sevenoaks, Kent; May Nash, daughter, age 6, born Sevenoaks, Kent.

Enlisted 18th November 1915, Sevenoaks, Kent, age 19 years & 1 month, height 5ft 6 inches, weight 141lbs, hammer toe left foot. Resided 3 Hortus Place, St Johns, Sevenoaks, Kent. Formerly bootmaker.

Home, 18th November 1915 to 22nd July 1916; BEF, 23rd July 1916 to 10th April 1917; Home, 11th April 1917 to 5th November 1917; BEF, 6th November 1917 to 30th November 1917.

18th November 1915, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 28th November 1915, posted 9th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 23rd June 1916, appointed unpaid Lance Corporal; 14th July 1916, embarked; 15th July 1916, disembarked; 23rd July 1916, posted BEF; 31st July 1916, posted 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 1st August 1916, joined Battalion, "A" Company, In the Field; 10th September 1916, 14 CRS, diarrhoea; 24th September 1916, Etaples, 40 Infantry Base Depot; 26th October 1916, joined Battalion, "C" Company, In the Field; 28th November 1916, reverts to Private at own request; 9th April 1917, wounded; 11th April 1917, 13 General Hospital, gun shot wound, left leg; 11th April 1917, to England; 11th April 1917, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 14th June 1917, posted Eastern Command Depot, Shoreham by Sea; 24th July 1917, Shoreham by Sea, improper conduct on parade, talking, 2 days confined to Barracks; 23rd September 1917, Shoreham, disobedience, 7 days confined to Barracks; 2nd October 1917, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 8th November 1917, embarked / disembarked; 13th November 1917, joined Battalion, In the Field; 30th November 1917, posted missing.

9th September 1919, Statement of Relatives - Father, George Nash, 1 Coles Grove Cottages, Goffs Lane, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire; Mother, Alice Nash, 1 Coles Grove Cottages, Goffs Lane, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire; Brothers - John Nash, age 20, 1 Coles Grove Cottages, Goffs Lane, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire; Sisters - Alice Nash, age 17, 1 Coles Grove Cottages, Goffs Lane, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire; May Nash, age 14, 1 Coles Grove Cottages, Goffs Lane, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire.

Commemorated at Cambrai Memorial, Panel 8, Louverval, France / Sevenoaks War Memorial.

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