The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private L J S Skeggs

Private Leonard John Sorrel SKEGGS, G/20861, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, posted to 1st / 20th London Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 1st September 1918, age 19.

12th June 1899, born Shepherds Bush, W, son of John Alfred and Emily Elizabeth Skeggs, 94, Tunis Road., Shepherd's Bush, London W12.

6th August 1899, St Thomas, Hammersmith, baptism of Leonard John Sorrel Skeggs, son of John Alfred, (railway porter), & Emily Elizabeth Skeggs, 63 Abdale Road, Hammersmith.

1911 Census - 59 Garvan Road, Fulham SW - John Alfred Skeggs, head, age 37, married, Railway Passenger Guard, Metropolitan Railway, worker, born Gibraltar; Emily Elizabeth Skeggs, wife, age 37, married 13 years, 4 children, 3 still alive, born Sittingbourne, Kent; Leonard John Sorrel Skeggs, son age 11, school, born Shepherds Bush; Winifred Emily Skeggs, daughter, age 4, born Willesden, NW, (paralysis from birth crossed out); Alfred William Skeggs, son, age 1, born Fulham.

Enlisted West London, age 18 years & 41 days, height 5ft 2½ inches, weight 107lbs. Resided 94, Tunis Road., Shepherd's Bush, London. Formerly photographers traveller.

Home 2nd March 1916 to 30th March 1918; BEF 1st April 1918 to 1st September 1918.

2nd March 1916, deemed to have enlisted; 23rd July 1917, called up for Serevice; 25th July 1917, Aldershot, posted 97th Training Reserve Battalion, Service No.108760; 23rd August 1917, Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot, Ophthalmic Centre, diagnosis myopia; treatment spectacles; 10th November 1917, Aldershot, not complying with an order, 3 days confined to Barracks; 7th December 1917, 23rd Training Reserve Brigade; 26th February 1918, Tunbridge Wells, arrived without glasses; 6th March 1918, Ophthalmic Centre, Tunbridge Wells, repaired and issued with glasses: 31st March 1918, transferred to 4th Royal Sussex Regiment, Service No.G/25120; 1st April 1918, posted BEF & 7th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment; 3rd April 1918, transferred to 1st / 20th London Regiment; 9th April 1918, joined 1st / 20th London Regiment, In the Field.

27th March 1919, date when Separation Allowance of 6/4 a week payable to mother will cease.

9th October 1919, Statement of Relatives - Widow, none; Children, none; Father, John Alfred Skeggs, 94, Tunis Road., Shepherd's Bush, London W12.; Mother, Emily Elizabeth Skeggs, 94, Tunis Road., Shepherd's Bush, London W12; Brothers - Alfred William Skeggs, age 10, 94, Tunis Road., Shepherd's Bush, London W12.; Sisters - Winifred Emily Skeggs, age 13, 94, Tunis Road., Shepherd's Bush, London W12.

Commemorated at Vis-en-Artois Memorial, Panel 7, France.

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