The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private J H Woodgate

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Beer Church Cemetery, Devon.

Photograph by "Rosemary Winter-Scott

Private John Henry WOODGATE, G/23616, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 32627, Middlesex Regiment), killed in action, Flanders France, 12th October 1917.

Born Beer, Devon, son of Albert & Mary Woodgate.

7th September 1907, St John the Baptist Church, Gloucester, Harry Woodgate, full age, bachelor, tailor, of this Parish, father, Albert Woodgate, fisherman, married Edith Ellen Mills, full age, ( born 19th November 1875), spinster, of this Parish, father, George Mills, painter.

Children - Ethel Mary Woodgate, born 17th November 1908; Albert George Woodgate, born 9th March 1910.

1911 Census - 109 Porrtnall Road, Paddington, London - John Henry Woodgate, head, age 34, married, tailor (maker), born Beer, Devon; Edith Ellen Woodgate, wife, age 36, married 4 years, 2 children, both still alive, born Glocester, Glocestershire; Ethel Mary Woodgate, daughter, age 3, born Paddington, London; Albert George Woodgate, son, age 1, born Paddington, London.

Enlisted Mill Hill, Middlesex.   Resided Kensal Rise, Middlesex.

Commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 106 to 108, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. & Beer Church Cemetery, Devon.