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Private H Sewell

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Private Harry SEWELL, G/18317, "D Company, 11th  Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 7th October 1916, age 27.

Born St Johns, Deptford, SE.

12th April 1914, Parish Church, Stanmore,  married Ellen Louisa West, spinster, Green Lane, Great Stanmore, Middlesex.

Children - Nellie Elizabeth Sewell, born 16th January 1915, Edgware.

Enlisted Stanmore, Berkshire, age 26 years & 5 months, height 6ft 2 inches, weight 9st 7lbs.  Resided Green Lane, Stanmore, Berkshire. Formerly gardener.

Home 18th November 1915 to 5th September 1916; BEF 6th September 1916 to 7th October 1916.

18th November 1915, enlisted; 19th November 1915, to Army Reserve; 13th April 1916, mobilized; 14th April 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 15th April 1916, posted 12th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, Service No.13373; 17th May 1916, appointed paid Lance Corporal; 1st September 1916, transferred to 23rd Brigade, 99 Battalion, Training Reserve, Service No. TR/10/40192; 6th September 1916, posted BEF; 6th September 1916, embarked / disembarked; 18th September 1916, joined 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, In the Field.

30th April 1917, pension of 18/9 a week awarded to widow & one child.

1920 December, Hendon Registration District, Ellen L Sewell, married George H Paintain.

Commemorated at  Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Panel 45 and 47, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

NOTE: Regimental History shows rank as Private; Soldiers Died in the Great War shows no rank; CWGC web site shows rank as Lance Corporal.