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The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private H W Worthington

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Photograph by "International Wargraves Photography Project"

Private Humphrey Wenton WORTHINGTON, G/19589, 11th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 32417, Norfolk Regiment),  killed in action,  Flanders France, 31st July 1917, age 19.

Born Scarborough, Yorkshire, son of Humphrey Worthington, M.D., and Anne Worthington, of 17, Cardiff Road, Luton, Bedfordshire.

1911 Census - 50 Castle Road, Scarborough, Yorkshire - Humphry Worthington, head, age 48, married, Medical Officer Scarborough, ?????? Medical Association, born Dublin, Ireland; Anne Worthington, wife, age 45, married 17 years, 2 children, both still alive, born Middletown, Yorkshire; Elizabeth Mildred Mary Worthington, daughter, age 15, single, school, born Middletown, Yorkshire; Humphrey Winton Worthington, son, age 12, school, born Scarborough, Yorkshire.

Enlisted London.  Resided Luton, Bedfordshire.

WW1 Great War Stories.

Commemorated Luton Town War Memorial.

Buried at Voormezeele Enclosure No.3., XVI. B. 16., Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

NOTE: Regimental History shows initials as H W; Soldiers Died in the Great War shows firstnames as Humphrey Wenton ; CWGC shows initials as H W and one firstname as Winton.