The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private P Waterman

Private Percy WATERMAN, L/10623, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 30th July 1916.

Born Hadlow, Kent, son of Frank & Anna Waterman.

1911 Census - 60 St Marys Road, Tonbridge, Kent - Frank Waterman, head, age 54, married, carter, worker, born Capel, Kent; Anna Waterman, wife, age 48, married 30 years, 11 children, 4 still alive, midwife, born Chelmsford, Essex; Percy Waterman, son, age 21, single, unemployed, born Hadlow, Kent; Evelyn Waterman, daughter, age 23, single, engaged Printing Works, worker, born Hadlow, Kent.

Enlisted Bromley, Kent. Resided Tonbridge, Kent.

22nd April 1915, posted BEF.

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 11C, Somme, France.

Commemorated on Tonbridge War Memorial - Tonbridge War Memorial - The original World War I memorial at the Junction of Pembury Road and Quarry Hill. The names were later re-inscribed in the new Memorial Garden in Bradford Street.

From Tonbridge History - Percy Waterman was born in Hadlow in 1890, the son of Frank and Anna. The family are recorded as living in St Mary’s Road, at number 140 in 1901 and number 60 in 1911. He served as Private L/10623 1st Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment, and, as he entered France on 22nd April 1915, he must have enlisted in the autumn of 1914. He was initially posted as missing, but later his death was presumed to have taken place on the 30th July 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.

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