The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private W R Thurling

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Private William Robert THURLING, S/262, 1st Battalion,  Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died at Military Hospital, Chatham, Kent, 3rd September 1916, age 49.

Born Bromley, Kent, son of John Robert & Sarah Jayne Thurling.

1891 September, Bromley Registration District, William Robert Thurling married Caroline Jane Tidy, 74, Simpson's Road, Bromley, Kent.

Children - Caroline Sarah Thurling, born 1894, Bromley, Kent; Elizabeth Alice Thurling, born 1896, Bromley, Kent; Lydia Mary Thurling, born 1898, Bromley, Kent; Robert George Thurling, born 1892, Bromley, Kent.

1911 Census - 15 Hawkesworth Road, Bromley, Kent - William Robert Thurling, head, age 44, married, labourer, builders, worker, born Bromley, Kent; Caroline Jane Thurling, wife, age 44, married 19 years, 6 children, 4 still alive, born Bromley, Kent; Elizabeth Alice Thurling, daughter, age 15, single, domestic servant, born Bromley, Kent; Lydia Mary Thurling, daughter, age 11, school, born Bromley, Kent; Robert George Thurling, daughter, age 9, born Bromley, Kent.

Enlisted Bromley, Kent.

7th December 1914, posted BEF.

Buried at Bromley Hill Cemetery, K. 210., United Kingdom.  Commemorated on Bromley War Memorial.

NOTE: Soldiers Died in the Great War shows Battalion as 1st; CWGC web site shows it as 3rd. Regimental History & Soldiers Died in the Great War shows Service No. as S/262; CWGC web site shows it as 8/262.