The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private P J Watts

Photograph by "Pearlady"

Private Percival John WATTS, G/6071, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 5th November 1915.

Born Charlton, Kent, son of James & Estella Kate Watts, 38 Belgrave Road, Pimlico, SW1/ 16 Lind Street, St Johns, SE8..

Enlisted Woolwich, Kent, age 19 years & 90 days, height 5ft 11 inches, weight 113lbs. Resided 8 Vanbrough Park Road, Blackheath, Kent. Formerly designer.

Home 29th March 1915 to 29th September 1915; BEF 30th September 1915 to 5th November 1915.

29th March 1915, enlisted; 30th March 1915, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 7th April 1915, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 30th September 1915, posted BEF & 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

13th June 1920, Statement of Relatives - Father, James Watts, 38 Belgrave Road, Pimlico, SW1/; Mother, Estella Kate Watts, 38 Belgrave Road, Pimlico, SW1/.

Buried at Elzenwalle Brasserie Cemetery, VII. B. 2., Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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