The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private H J Warbis

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Private Henry John Francis WARBIS, TF/241873, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 5306, The Buffs),  died of wounds, at No.37. Casualty Clearing Station, Flanders France, 5th October 1917.

Born Bethnal Green, Middlesex, son of Henry Thomas & Leah Elizabeth Warbis,

4th March 1883, St Phillip, Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets, baptism of Henry Warbis, son of Henry, (hawker), Elizabeth Warbis, Old Nichol? Street.

Educated Bethnal Green. Middlesex.

6th November 1900, at St Luke's, Hackney, married E, Dorinda Weston, (daughter of Samuel Weston),  16 Warner Place, Hackney, E. / 35, Selman St., Cassland Road, South Hackney, London.

Leah Elizabeth Warbis, born 28th June 1911; Henry Thomas William Warbis, born 23

Children - Helen M Warbis, born 3rd May 1903; Violet R Warbis, born 7th September 1907; Lily Warbis, born 8th August 1909;

1911 Census - 58 Appleby Street, Kingsland Road, Shoreditch - Henry Warbis, head, age 28, married, French Polisher.,  Furniture Trade, worker, born  Bethnal Green, London; Dorinda Warbis, wife, age 28, married 10 years, 3 children, all still alive, born Shoreditch, London; Helen Warbis, daughter, age 7, born Hackney, London; Violet Warbis, daughter, age 3, born Homerton, London; Lilt Warbis, daughter, age 1, born Homerton, London.

Children - Leah Elizabeth Warbis, born 28th June 1911; Henry Thomas Warbis, born 23rd October 1913; Ethel G Warbis, born 11th June 1915; Samuel Alfred Warbis, born 25th October 1916.

Enlisted 25th September 1917, Hackney, Middlesex, resided Homerton, London, NE.

Buried at Godewaersvelde British Cemetery, I. L. 21., Nord, France.