The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private J R Sleed

Inscription -

"INVICTA

TRUE TILL FDEATH

OUR DEAR AND ONLY SON"

Photograph by "Philippe DEGROOTE"

Private Josiah Richard SLEED, G/4092, "A" Company, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died of wounds, Flanders France, 29th March 1918, age 26 .

12th April 1892, born Marylebone, Middlesex, son of Richard Arthur and Caroline Rose Sleed, of 29, Ingestre Buildings, Broad Street, London. Native of St. Pancras, London.

1st December 1895, Langham, Westminster, baptism of Josiah Richard Sleed, son of Richard Arthur, (spring maker), and Rose Caroline Sleed, 8 Fitzroy Mews.

1911 Census - 29, Ingestre Buildings, Broad Street, London - Richard Sleed, head, age 46, married, blindmaker, furnishing, born St. Pancras, London; Caroline Sleed, wife, age 46, married 20 years, 1 child, still alive, born St. Pancras, London; Josiah Sleed, son, age 19, single, plater & guilder, brass finishing, worker, born St. Pancras, London.

Enlisted Camberwell, Middlesex. Resided Broad Street, W.

23rd June 1915, posted BEF.

Buried at Doullens Communal Cemetery Extension No.1., VI. G. 9., France.

NOTE: Regimental History and Soldiers Died in the Great War show lastname as STEED; CWGC web site show last name as SLEED.

This page was last updated on 19-Feb-2022.