The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private W J Wide

Photograph by "Marvin & Samme Templin"

Private Wilfred James WIDE, G/17914, 6th Battalion Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, *died France, 5th December 1917.

* On official German list of the dead, Private W J Wide, 6 R. West Kent. The owner of his disc was found on the battlefield near Cambrai and buried there on the 5th December 1917.

Born Hemyock, Devon, son of Edwin & Florence Elizabeth Wide.

1911 Census - 9 Elthorne Terrace, Boston Road, Hanwell, London W - Arthur George Peacock, head, age 36, head, decorator, house, worker, born Brentford, Middlesex; Ada Peacock, wife, age 35, married 7 years, 2 children, both still alive, born Ealing, Middlesex; Arthur Peacock, son, age 7, born Southall, Middlesex; Lilian Peacock, daughter, age 4 months, born Hanwell, Middlesex; Wilfred Wide, boarder, age 25, single, upholsterer, worker, born Hemyock, Devon.

19th April 1914, Kensal Rise, London, married Dorothy Elizabeth Haywood, spinster, 17A Chapel Street, Petersfield, Hampshire..

Enlisted Chiswick, Middlesex, age 32 years & 3 months, height 5ft 7 inches, weight 129lbs, fresh complexion, hazel eyes, dark hair. Resided 339 High Road, Chiswick, Middlesex. Formerly cabinet maker.

Home 25th January 1916 to 2nd October 1916; BEF 3rd October 1916 to 5th December 1917.

25th January 1916, enlisted; 25th January 1916 to Army Reserve; 10th May 1916, Medical History, examined Houslow, age 32, height 5ft 7½ inches, weight 133lbs; 19th June 1916, mobilized; 20th June 1916, posted 27th (Reserve) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, Service No.3256; 1st September 1916, posted Training Reserve, Service No.TR/10/56963; 3rd October 1916, posted BEF; 3rd October 1916, transferred to Royal West Kent Regiment; 6th October 1916, embarked; 18th October 1916, posted 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 18th October 1916, joined Battalion, In the Field; 8th August 1917, attached New ?????? Tun Compamy; 13th September 1917, rejoined Battalion; 30th November 1917, posted missing.

4th August 1918, date when Separation Allowance of 16/1 a week payable to wife, will cease.

5th August 1918, pension of 13/9 a week awarded to widow.

Commemorated Cambrai Memorial, Panel 8, Louverval, Nord, France.

Brother - Private Percy Edwin Wide, 1st Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, Service No.30117, died 4th October 1917. Commemorated Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 41 to 42.

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