The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private H W Wenbourne

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Private Herbert William WENBOURNE, G/18531, 11th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action,  Flanders France, 31st July 1917, age 21.

Son of William and Harriet Wenbourne, of Park Cottage, Frittenden, Kent.

1911 Census - Parsonage Farm, Frittenden, Staplehurst, Kent - William Wenbourne, head, age 42, married, waggoner on farm, worker, born Tenterden; Harriett Wenbourne, wife, age 43, married 19 years, 3 children, aall still alive, born Cranbrook; Frances Wenbourne, daughter, age 17, single, born Frittenden; Herbert Wenbourne, son, age 15, single, cowman on farm, worker, born Frittenden; Arthur Wenbourne, son, age 11, school, born Frittenden; Lewis Martin, boarder, age 27, single, waggoner, worker, born Wittersham.

Enlisted Ashford, Kent.  Resided Parsonage Cottage, Frittenden, Kent.

29th April 1915, enlisted; 29th April 1915, posted 3/1 Battalion, East Kent Mounted Rifles, Service No.2473; 10th July 1915, posted 2/1 Battalion, East Kent Mounted Rifles; 21st September 1916, embarked; 22nd September 1916, Etaples, 38th Infantry Base Depot; 11th October 1916, transferred to 4th Battalion (Special Reserve), Royal West Kent Regiment; 11th October 1916, posted 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 14th October 1916, joined 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, In the Field.

24th September 1919, Statement of Relatives - Widow, none; Children, none; Father, William Wenbourne, Park Cottage, Frittenden; Mother, Harriet Ann Wenbourne, Park Cottage, Frittenden; Brothers - Arthur George Wenbourne, age 19, 241st Company, Royal Army Service Corps, Scattan Camp, Catterick, Yorkshire; Sisters - Francis Edith Murrell, age 26, Park Cottage, Frittenden.

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