The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private R W Brigden

Photograph by Chris(tine) Eaton

Private Reginald Wilfred BRIGDEN, G/7598, "A" Company, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 1768, West Kent Yeomanry), killed in action, Miraumount, Flanders France, 14th February 1917, age 24.

Born 17th November 1890, Hastings, Sussex, son of Philip Thomas Brigden, and his wife Emily (daughter of Arthur Jenner of Wittersham, Kent), of Egerton House, Croft Road, Hastings, Sussex.

19th March 1893, Hastings, Sussex, christening of Reginald Wilfred Brigden, son of Philip Thomas & Emily Brigden.

Educated Hastings Grammar School. Resided Hastings, Sussex.

1911 Census - 2 Croft Terrace, Hastings - Philip Thomas Bridgen, head, age 43, married, building & decorating, employer, born Hastings, Sussex; Emily Brigden, wife, age 45, married 23 years, 6 children, all still alive, born St Leonards, Sussex; Philip Walter Brigden, son, age 22, single, building & decorating, born Hastings, Sussex; Reginald Brigden, son, age 18, single, clerk, printing & stationery, born Hastings, Sussex; Harold Brigden, son, age 15, stationers shop, behind counter, born Hastings, Sussex; Constance Brigden, daughter, age 10, school, born Hastings, Sussex; Arthur Brigden, son, age 6, school, born Hastings, Sussex.

21st November 1915, Hastings, Sussex, married Eva Cynthia Connelly, (daughter of Manfred Denvil Connelly of Chesley, Ontario, Canada), of 72, Petherton Road, Highbury, London.

Enlisted 22nd April 1915, Maidstone, Kent, having been rejected in August 1914, on account of his eyesight; served with the Expeditionary Force in France & Flanders from December 1916.

Colonel Cornwallis of the West Kent Yeomanry wrote: "He was of the type of soldier with whom it was a pleasure to been associated."

Buried at Regina Trench Cemetery, Grandcourt, VII.C.6., Somme, France.

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