The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private J Willard

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Private Jesse WILLARD, G/58, 3rd / 4th Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 17th September 1917, age 24.

Born East Sutton, Maidstone, Kent, son of George & Bessie.

1911 Census - Old School Cottages, Ightham, Sevenoaks, Kent - George Willard, head, age 62, married, farm labourer, working on farm, worker, born Hawkhurst, Kent; Bessie Willard, wife, age 50, married 23 years, 13 children, 9 still alive, born Ulcomb, Kent; Jessie Willard, son, age 16, single, bricklayers labourer, worker, born East Sutton, Kent; Elsie Willard, daughter, age 14, domestic, born East Sutton, Kent; Rose Willard, daughter, age 12, scholar, born East Sutton, Kent; Minnie Willard, daughter, age 11, scholar, born Snodland, Kent; Albert Willard, son, age 8, scholar, born Birling, Kent; Emily Willard, daughter, age 6, scholar, born Ightham, Kent.

Enlisted Maidstone, Kent.  Resided Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.

1st June 1915, posted BEF.

1917 June, Cambridge Registration District, Jesse Willard married Catherine Ann Gilkes, 56, Norwich Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.

Buried at Sunken Road Cemetery, I. A. 31., Fampoux, France.

NOTE: Regimental History & Soldiers Died in the Great War both show Service No. as G/58; CWGC web site shows it as 9156.