The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private H H Walmsley

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Private  Henry Halton WALMSLEY, G/31618, 7th Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly Border Regiment, Service No.36353),  killed in action,  Flanders France, 23rd August 1918, age 19.

Born Higher Walton, Lancashire, son of Henry H & Elizabeth Walmsley.

1911 Census - 102 Higher Walton Road, Higher Walton, Lancashire - Sarah Ann Kay, head, age 42, married, no children, weaver cotton, cotton mill, worker, born Walton le Dale, Lancashire; Hannah Walmsley, mother, age 66, single, housekeeper, home, born Walton e Dale, Lancashire; Hannah Wright Gaskell, boarder, age 31, single, weaver cotton, cotton mill, worker, born Blackburn, Lancashire; Henry Holton Walmsley, age 11, school, born Walton e Dale, Lancashire.

Enlisted Preston, Lancashire.

Buried at Becourt Military Cemetery, II. B. 4., Becordel-Becourt, Somme, France.