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The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private W Howes

Private Wilfred HOWES, G/3679, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, Flanders France, 4th October 1916, age 21.

Born Charlbury, Oxfordshire, son of William John and Ann Howes, of Hixet Wood, Charlbury, Oxfordshire.

18th August 1895, Charlbury, Oxfordshire, baptism of Wilfred Howes, son of William John, (postman), and Ann Howes,. Market Street, Charlbury, Oxfordshire.

1911 Census - 8 West End, Witney, Oxfordshire - Herbert Charles King, head, age 39, married, shopkeeper, confectionery, employer, at home, born Witney, Oxfordshire; Violet Rosina King, wife, age 27, married 3 years, no children, assisting in the business, born Woolwich, Kent; Tom Meredith, boarder, age 25, single, manager grocer, grocery, worker, born Great Bourton, Oxfordshire; Wilfred Howes, assistant, age 15, single, assistant, confectionery, worker, born Charlbury, Oxfordshire.

Enlisted Hendon, Middlesex, Resided Golders Green, Middlesex.

11th August 1915, posted BEF.

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 11C, France /Charlbury, Oxfordshire War Memorial.

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