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Private Horace SAYER, 205088, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent  Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 30th June 1918. 

4th April 1897, born Chillinden, Kent, son of George and Violet Sayer, of Pilot's Cottages, Lower Hardres, Canterbury, Kent.

1911 Census - Bonington Lodge, Goodnestone, Canterbury, Kent - George Sayer, head, age 43, married, general labourer, on farm, worker, born Goodneston, Canterbury, Kent; Violet Sayer, wife, age 44, married 20 years, 6children, all still alive, born Tutbury, Staffordshire; George Sayer, son, age 18, single, milking on farm, worker, born Scropton, Derbyshire; Richard Sayer, son, age 16, single, milking on farm, worker, born Chillenden, Kent; Horace Sayer, son, age 14, odd boy on farm, worker, born Chillenden, Kent; Miriam Sayer, daughter, age 6, school, born Chillenden, Kent; May Sayer, daughter, age 3, born Goodnestone, Canterbury, Kent; Thomas Sayer, son, age 1, born Goodnestone, Canterbury, Kent.

Enlisted Canterbury, Kent.

Commemorated at Pozieres Memorial, Panel 58 and 59, France / Goodnestone  Roll of Honour / Stelling Minnis War Memorial

NOTE: Goodnestone Roll of Honour gives age as 18: CWGC web site gives it as 21.