The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private W H Rowden

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Private William Horace ROWDEN, G/10187, 10th  Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment,  killed in action, Flanders France, 21st  September 1917, age 19.

Born Plaistow, Essex, son of William Henry & Ellen Rowden, of 25, Pacific Road, Canning Town, London.

1911 Census  - 23 Adamson Road, Custom House. London E - William Rowden, head, age 42, married, dock clerk, shipping, worker, born Bow, London; Ellen Rowden, wife, age 41, married 19 years, 11 children, 7 still alive, born Norwood, Surrey; Flora Rowden, daughter, age 14, born Canning Town, Essex; William Rowden, son, age 12, school, born Canning Town, Essex;  Ellen Rowden, daughter, age 9, school, born Canning Town, Essex; Ernest Rowden, son, age 8, school, born Canning Town, Essex; Charles Rowden, son, age 6, school, born Canning Town, Essex; Walter Rowden, son, age 3, born Canning Town, Essex.

Enlisted Woolwich, Kent, age 19 years & 120 days.  Resided 25, Pacific Road, Canning Town, Essex. Formerly machine hand.

Home 14th October 1915 to 2nd May 1916; BEF 3rd May 1916 to 14th April 1917; Home 15th April 1917 to 3rd July 1917; BEF 4th July 1917 to 21st September 1917.

12th October 1915, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 16th October 1915, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 19th February 1916, posted 10th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 3rd May 1916, Southampton, embarked; 4th May 1916, Havre, disembarked; 11th June 1916, 140 Field Ambulance, admitted to DRS,  boils; 15th June 1916, 41 DRS to Duty; 26th February 1917, admitted to Hospital; 4th March 1917, Rouen, 5 General Hospital; 31st March 1917, Rouen, ex 5 General Hospital, hospital train to England per HS Matilda?, pleurisy; 15th April 1917, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 15th April 1917 to 17th May 1917, Red Cross Hospital, Christchurch, Hampshire, pleurisy; 28th May 1917, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 14th June 1917, posted BEF; 4th July 1917 posted 10 Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

Commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 106 to 108., Belgium.