The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private W J Appleton

Private William James APPLETON, 205434, 10th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 316062, Northumberland Fusiliers), killed in action, Flanders, France, 31st July 1917.

Born Thirsk, Yorkshire, son of George Appleton.

1911 Census - Long Street, Thirsk, Yorkshire - George Appleton, head, age 48, married, copper, born Thirsk, Yorkshire; Emma Appleton, wife, age 4, married 27 years, 9 children, all still alive, born Upsall, Thirsk, Yorkshire; Henry Appleton, son, age 22, single, joiner, born Thirsk, Yorkshire; Sidney Appleton, son, age 20, single, ironmonger, born Thirsk, Yorkshire; Thomas Appleton, son, age 18, single, apprentice dentist?. born Thirsk, Yorkshire; William James Appleton, son age 12, school, born Thirsk, Yorkshire; George Edmund Appleton, son, age 9, school, born Thirsk, Yorkshire; Martha Ellen Appleton, daughter, age 6, school, born Thirsk, Yorkshire; Lumley Appleton, brother, age 42, single, general labourer, born Thirsk, Yorkshire.

Enlisted Thirsk, Yorkshire.

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

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