The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private R Heffer

Photograph by "Jared"

Private Robert HEFFER, 200007, 2nd/4th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 3373, Royal Fusiliers), killed in action, Egypt, 6th November 1917, age 38.

19th March 1880, born Eriswell, Suffolk, son of William and Sarah Heffer, 37, Eriswell, Brandon, Suffolk. Baptised Mildenhall Circuit Wesleyan Methodist, Mildenhall, Suffolk.

1900, December Quarter, Mildenhall, Suffolk, married Apollonia Elizabeth Benstead, of 5, Eriswell, Brandon, Suffolk.

1911 Census - 5, Eriswell, Brandon, Suffolk - Robert Heffer, head, age 31, married, farm labourer, worker, born Eriswell, Suffolk; Apollonia Heffer, wife, age 33, married 10 years, 1 child, born Hanwell, London; Florence Naomi Heffer, daughter, age 9, born Eriswell, Suffolk; John Nunn, boarder, age 29, farm labourer, worker, born London, Middlesex.

Enlisted Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

Commemorated at Jerusalem Memorial, Panel 41., Israel. & Eriswell War Memorial / Weather Heath Memorial

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