The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private H J Vitler

Private Henry James VITLER, G/21137, (2446), 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 21st March 1918.

Born Battle, Sussex, son of Ann Elizabeth Vitler.

1911 Census - 3 Clive Villas, Battle Hill, Battle, Sussex - Francis Waite Vitler, head, age 31, single, Railway Porter, South Eastern & Chatham Railway, born Battle, Sussex; Ann Elizabeth Vitler, mother, age 60, widow, born Wartling, Sussex; Elizabeth Jane Vitler, sister, age 32, single, cook, domestic, born Battle, Sussex; Henry James Vitler, brother, age 14, ironmongers errand boy, born Battle, Sussex; Jane Thatcher, Aunt, age 62, married 26 years, no children, wife of Insurance Agent, born Wartling, Sussex.

Enlisted Maidstone, Kent, age 18 years & 2 months, height 5ft 7 weight 10st 3 oz. Resided 19 Lucerne Street, Maidstone, Kent.

Home 7th September 1914 to 11th August 1916; BEF 12th August 1916 to 21st March 1918.

7th September 1914, enlisted & posted 4th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 25th April 1915, posted 2/4th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 7th July 1915 to 26th July 1915, Hospital, measles; 17th July 1915, posted 3/4 Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 12th August 1916, attached 1/20th London Regiment; 13th September 1916, posted 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 3rd February 1918, wounded; 21st March 1918, posted missing.

2nd December 1918, date when Separation Allowance of 6/2 a week payable to mother, will cease.

11th October 1919, Statement of Relatives - Widow, none; Children, none; Father, none; Mother, Ann Elizabeth Vitler; Brother - Henry Vitler, age 58, 59 Frindsbury Road, Strood; Sisters - Elizabeth Jane Poleman, age 41, Victoria ???????, ??????, Edenbridge; Florence A Vitler, age 36, Forest ????? Hampshire; Ann ???? Vitler, age 34, 19 Lucerne Street, Maidstone, Kent; Lily May Vitler, 19 Lucerne Street, Maidstone, Kent; Maud Ethel Tavis???, 20 Beatty? Street, Gravesend.

Commemorated at Pozieres Memorial, Panel 58 and 59, Somme, France.

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