The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private J Brook

Private John BROOK, G/4938, 10th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 7th March 1917.

Born Ninfield, Sussex.

20th March 1909, Register Office, East Grinstead, Sussex, married Mary Victoria Flint, spinster of Scarlets Cottage, Cowden, Kent.

Children: George William Brook, born 27th August 1909, East Grinstead; Hannich May Brook, born 16th April 1911, East Grinstead; Barbara May Brook, born 23rd March 1914, East Grinstead. May 1917 living at North Street, Cowden, Kent.

1911 Census - 2 Brooklands Cottage, Ashurst Wood, Hammaer Wood, East Grinstead - John Benjamin Brook, head, age 28, married, stockman on farm, born Ninfield, Sussex; Mary Victoria Brook, wife, age 28, married 2 years, 1 child, born Swainsthorpe, Norfolk; George William Brook, son, age 1, born Hammerwood, Sussex.

Enlisted Tonbridge, Kent, age 31 years, 7 months, height 5ft 4 inches. Resided Scarlets Cottage, Cowden, Kent. Formerly carter.

12th December 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 18th December 1914, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 4th March 1915, posted BEF & 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 14th May 1915, wounded; 14th May 1915 to 3rd July 1915, Lewisham Military Hospital, superficial shrapnel wounds, side of right ankle; 3rd July 1915, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 20th December 1915, posted 10th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 3rd May 1916, embarked Southampton; 4th May 19169, disembarked Havre;

2nd April 1917, personal effects of 2 x purses, tobacco box, disc, correspondence, knife cap badge, watch key, to widow.

16th April 1917, personal effects of Silver watch, metal chain forwarded to widow.

1st October 1917, date when Separation Allowance of 24/6 a week and Allotment of Pay of 3/6 a week payable to wife stops.

1st October 1917, pension awarded of 26/3 a week for wife and three children.

Buried at Klein-Vierstraat British Cemetery, I.D.10., Heuvelland, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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