The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private S J Whitcombe

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Private Stephen James WHITCOMBE, G/15462, 10th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died N.Mid Casualty Clearing Station, France, 12th December 1916, age 29.

Born Whitstable, Kent, son of James John & Agnes Phoebe Whitcombe.

July 1910, married Emily Ellen Anderson, of 12, Seymour Place, Wincheap, Canterbury, Kent.

1911 Census - 10 Abbotts Place, Canterbury, Kent - Stepen James Whitcombe, head, age 23, married, butchers assistant, pork butcher, worker, born Canterbury, Kent; Emily Ellen Whitcombe, wife, age 24, married 1 year, children, none, born Dover, Kent; William Harold Whitcombe, brother, age 22., single, born Canterbury, Kent.

Children - Irene Maud Whitcombe, born 12th July 1911; Sidney Stephen Whitcombe, born 16th November 1913; Florence Emily Agnes Whitcombe, born 4th December 1914.

Enlisted Canterbury, Kent.

Buried at Meteren Military Cemetery, V. F. 725., Nord, France. Commemorated Canterbury War Memorial, Canterbury, Kent..