The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private H Vine

Private Horace VINE, G/23468, 2nd Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died, 4th April 1917, India, with Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, age 32.

Born Eastbourne, Sussex, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Vine.

1907 March, Strood Registration District, Horace Vine, married Emma Jane Parker, (born 20th September 1887), of 2, Enfield Terrace, Gravesend, Kent.

Children - Nellie Louisa Parker, born 21st November 1906; Alice Emily Vine, born 14th November 1907; William Charles Vine, born 10th October 1909.

1911 Census - 2, Enfield Terrace, Kempthorne Street, Gravesend, Kent - Horace Vine, head, age 26, married coachman domestic, Mayor of Gravesend, born Eastbourne, Sussex; Emma Jane Vine, wife, age 25, married 5 years, 3 children, all still alive, born Meopham, Kent; Nellie Louise Vine, daughter, age 4, born Eastbourne, Sussex; Alice Emily Vine, daughter, age 3, born Gravesend, Kent; William Charles Vine, son, age 1, born Gravesend, Kent.

Children - Florence Vine, born 10th October 1911; Horace Vine, born 17th March 1914.

Enlisted Gravesend, Kent. Resided 2, Enfield Terrace,Gravesend, Kent.

Buried in Bangalore (Hosur Road) Cemetery, Plot 7, Row D1. Grave 66. India.

Commemorated at Madras 1914 -1918 Memorial, Face 20, Chennai, India.

NOTE: Regimental History and Soldiers Died in the Great War both show rank as Private; CWGC web site shows rank as Lance Corporal.

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