The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private H Howes

Private Herbert HOWES, 205688, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 3851, R.E.K.M.R.), killed in action, Flanders France, 12th October 1917, age 34.

Born Plumstead, Kent, son of Edwin and Sarah Howes.

1911 Census - 63 Martyrs Field Road, Dumbreck, Canterbury, Kent - Thomas Smith, head, age 38, married, Tanners light shedman, tannery, worker, born Canterbury, Kent; Emily Smith, wife, age 37, married 15 years, 3 children, 2 still alive, born Burton on Trent, Staffordshire; Emily Rachel Smith, daughter, age 14, dressmakers apprentice, worker, born Canterbury, Kent; Arthur Thomas Smith, son, age 12, school, born Canterbury, Kent; Herbert Howes, boarder, age 26, single, clerk bookstall, Railway, worker, born Plumstead, Kent; Winifred Lydia Wickings, boarder, age 21, single, Assistant School Mistress, Borough Council, worker, born Sheerness on Sea, Kent.

Enlisted Canterbury, Kent.

12th February 1918 Probate - Herbert Hoews of 8 Lancaster Road, Canterbury, assistant to Messrs W H Smith and Sons and Private H.M. 4th Royal West Kent Regiment, died 12th October 1917, in France on Active Service. Probate Canterbury 12th February to James Constant, carpenter. Effects £496 13s 10d.

Commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 106 to 108., Belgium.

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