The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private T W Wilkins

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Photograph by "Marvin & Samme Templin"

Private Thomas William WILKINS, G/8040, 11th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment,  killed in action,  Flanders France, 31st July  1917.

19th November 1879, born Croydon, SE. son of Thomas & Mary Ann Wilkins.

25th January 1880, St John, Croydon, Surrey, baptism of Thomas William Wilkins, son of Thomas, (gardening), & Mary Ann Wilkins, Croydon.

1901 June Quarter, Lewisham Registration District, Thomas William Wilkins married Matilda Mary Bath.

Children -  Ellen Matilda Wilkins, born 29th August 1901, Lee, Kent; Thomas William Wilkins, born 1903, Lee, Kent; Doris Ethel Wilkins, born 1905, Lee, Kent; Albert Edgar Wilkins, born 31st May 1908, Lee, Kent.

1911 Census - 85 Brightfield Road, Lee Kent - Thomas Wilkins, head, age 31, married, slaters labourer, worker, born Croydon, Surrey; Matilda Wilkins, wife, age 32, married 9 years, 4 children, all still alive, laundress, worker, born Lee, Kent; Nellie Wilkins, daughter, age, 9, born Lee, Kent; Thomas Wilkins, son, age 8, born Lee, Kent; Doris Wilkins, son, age 5, born Lee, Kent; Albert Wilkins, son, age 2, born Lee, Kent.

Enlisted Lewisham, SE.  Resided Catford, SE.

Guardian, Daisy Ethel Kenables; Children, Thomas William Wilkins, born 14th January 1903, Lee, Kent; Doris Ethel Wilkins, born 7th October 1905, Lee, Kent; Albert George Wilkins, born 29th June 1908, Lee, Kent.

Commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Panel 45 and 47, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.