The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private V J Poole

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Private Vincent John POOLE, 29182, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 43022, Hampshire Regiment), posted to 1st / 20th Battalion, London Regiment, died of wounds, 2nd September 1918, age 19.

1899, born Hitcham, Buckinghamshire, son of Harry and *Charlotte Kate Poole.

* 1900 December, Eton Registration District, died age 23.

1911 Census - Hitcham, Buckinghamshire - Henry Mosdell, head, age 64, married, ???????, Great Western Railway, worker, born Waltham, Berkshire; Mary Mosdell, wife, age 62, married 45 years, 7 children, 5 still alive, born Burnham, Buckinghamshire; Dorothy Poole, grandchild, age 13, school, born Hitcham, Buckinghamshire; Vincent Poole, grandchild, age 11, school, born Hitcham, Buckinghamshire.

Sister - Dorothy P Bloomfield.

Enlisted Oxford, Oxfordshire.

Buried at Heilly Station Cemetery, VII. B. 43., Mericourt-l'Abbe, France. Commemorated on Hitcham, Buckinghamshire War Memorial.

NOTE: not included in QORWKR Regimental History but included in Soldiers Died in the Great War, London Regiment.