The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private H P Reid

Private Henry Patrick REID, G/10837, 11th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 7th October 1916.

Born St Helens, son of George & Mary Jane Reid, Crabb Memorial Institute, Tunbridge Wells, Kent / 11 Faversham Road, Beckenham, SE. / Orchard Hospital, Dartford, Kent / 112 St Leoards Road, Dartford, Kent / 112 St Vincents Road, Dartford, Kent.

1911 Ireland Census - 2 Woodville Terrace, Drumcondra, Glasnevin, Dublin - George J Reid, read & write, age 52 years & 11 months, male, Head of Family, Staff Quartermaster Sergeant A P Corps, married, born Kent, England; Mary Jane Reid, wife, read & write, age 53 years & 2 months, married 27 years, 8 children, 2 still alive, born Yorkshire, England; Henry P Reid, son, read & write, age 17 years & 1 month, electrician, single, born South Africa.

Enlisted Lewisham, SE, age 21 years & 240 days, height 5ft 6½ inches, weight 150lbs. Resided 11 Faversham Road, Beckenham, SE. Formerly miller.

Home 8th November 1915 to 2nd May 1916; BEF 3rd May 1916 to 7th October 1916.

8th November 1915, enlisted & posted 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 2nd May 1916, Southampton, embarked; 3rd May 1916, Havre, disembarked;

19th August 1919, Statement of Relatives - Widow, NIL; Children, NIL; Father, George Read, 112 St Vincents Road, Dartford, Kent; Mother, Mary J Reid, 112 St Vincents Road, Dartford, Kent; Brothers - *George Reid, age 31, killed in France; Sisters - NIL.

From Pension Records - Eliza Reid, unmarried wife. Dependant - Josephine Jane Reid.

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 11C, France. / St Helens War Memorial.

Photograph by "Margaut"

*Sergeant George James Reid, 6th Battalion, The Queens (Royal West Surrey Regiment), Service No.3814, died of wounds, No.1. General Hospital, 22nd October 1916, age 35. Buried Etretat Churchyard, II.B.15A, Etretat, Departement de la Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France.

Born Beverley, Yorkshire. 13th March 1887, St Mary, Hoxton, Hackney, baptism of George James Reid, son of George, (Vellum ??????), & Mary Jane Reid, of 13 Cayton Street, City Road.

1911 Census - 21 Bridport Street, Liverpool - George Reid, boarder, age 27, married, cinematography operator, worker, born Beverley, Yorkshire; Josephine Reid, boarder, age 27, married 3 years, 1 child, died, Dublin Resident.

Enlisted Tonbridge, Kent, Resided Halstead, Kent.

6th July 1915, posted BEF

From Pension Records - Eliza Reid, unmarried wife. Dependant / unmarried wife - Josephine Jane Reid.

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