The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private H J Sontag


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Private Hughie James SONTAG, G/3731, "D" Company, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 20th July 1916, age 24.

24th March 1892, born Kentish Town, Middlesex, son of Louis Albert & Elizabeth Sontag, 53, Angel Road, Edmonton, London.

15th June 1896, admitted Camden Street School, father Louis Sontag, 193, Great College Street, St Pancras, London


1911 Census - 1 Stanford Terrace, White Hart Lane, Tottenham, N. - Louis Albert Sontag, head, age 56, married, pianoforte maker, worker, born Frith Street, Soho, London; Elizabeth Sontag, wife, age 52, married 31 years, 4 children, all still alive, born Howland Street, St Pancras, London; Hugh James Sontag, son, age 20, single, carman, worker, born Weedington Road, St Pancras, London; *Daisy Sontag, daughter, age 18, single, factory hand, machinist, brass factory, worker, born Weedington Road, St Pancras, London; Sidney Sontag, son, age 14, Great College Street, St Pancras, London; Herbert Louis Sontag, son, age 10, school, born Chancery Street, Lower Edmonton, Middlesex. * born 28th April 1893.


Enlisted Tottenham, N.  Resided Edmonton, N.

26th May 1915, posted BEF.

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier and Face 11 C., France.


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