The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private W H Webster

Photograph by "Marvin & Samme Templin"

Private William Henry WEBSTER, S/403, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 18th April 1915.

Born Poplar, London, Middlesex.

1908 December, St Mary the Virgin, William Henry Webster, age 26, bachelor, decorator, married Jane Speedy, age 21, spinster.

Children - Alexander William Webster, born 5th October 1910;

1911 Census - 4 Cavendish Villas, Ashford Road, South Woodford, London E - William Henry Webster, head, age 30, married, house painter, builder, worker, born Poplar, Middlesex; Jane Webster, wife, age 24., married 3 years, 2 children, 1 still alive, born Stratford, Essex; Alexander William Webster, son, age 6 months, born Wanstead, Essex.

Children - William Henry Webster, born 29th April 1913; George Webster, born 6th June 1914.

Enlisted Stratford, Essex.

8th November 1914, posted BEF.

1917 June, West Ham Registration District, Jane Webster married Roger Puffett

Commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Panel 45 and 47, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Commemorated at Holy Trinity Church, South Woodford, Essex.

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