The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private T H Wheatcroft

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Private Thomas Henry WHEATCROFT, G/38658, 7th  Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly M/314587, RASC, MT), killed in action, Flanders France, 23rd August 1918, age 31.

Born Chesterfied, Derbyshire, son of John Henry and Selina Wheatcroft, of Brampton, Chesterfield, Derbyshire.

1908 March Quarter, Nottingham Registration District, married Edith May Munson, 23, Sedgley Avenue, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire.

Children - John Henry Wheatcroft, born 13th August 1908.

1911 Census - 4 Glove Cottages, Wallon Road, Chesterfied, Derbyshire - Thomas Henry Wheatcroft, head, age 23, married, ironmongers assistant, retail, worker, born Brampton, Derbyshire; Edith Wheatcroft, wife, age 23, married 3 years, 1 child, still alive, born Wood Green, London; John Henry Wheatcroft, son, age 2, born Brampton, Derbyshire; Samuel Church, uncle, age 66, widower, born Willenhall, Staffordshire, totally blind last 5 years; Emma May Ann Munim, visitor, age 21, single, born Wood Green, London.

Children - Oscar Munson Wheatcroft, born 1st June 1911.

Enlisted Nottingham, Nottinghamshire.  Resided Nottingham, Nottinghamshire.

Buried at Albert Communal Cemetery Extension, II. B. 17., Somme, France.