The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private W Rowell

Photograph by "Len"

Private William ROWELL, G/13190, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 24th August 1918.

Born Littleport, Cambridgeshire, son of Ellingham & Elizabeth Rowell, Horsley Hale, Littleport, Cambridgeshire.

Enlisted 29th February 1916, Littleport, Cambridgeshire, age 38, height 5ft 3 inches, weight 129lbs. Resided Horsley Hale, Littleport, Cambridgeshire. Formerly agricultural labourer.

Home, 29th February 1916 to 23rd November 1916; BEF, 24th November 1916 to 6th August 1917; Home, 7th August 1917 to 11th March 1918; BEF, 12th March 1918 to 15th May 1918; Home, 16th May 1918 to 8th July 1918; BEF, 9th July 1918 to 24th August 1918.

7th August 1917 to 9th October 1917, Wharncliffe War Hospital Sheffield, pleurisy; 9th October to 18th October 1917, furlough granted; 18th October 1917 to 10th December 1917, Eastern Command Depot, Shoreham by Sea; 4th April 1918, wounded; 16th May 1918 to 4th June 1918, North Staffordshire Infirmary, Stoke on Trent, gun shot wound left leg.

Buried at Meaulte Military Cemetery, F. 13., France.

NOTE: One of 18 members of the 6th Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment who were killed on 24 August 1918. All are now buried in Meaulte Military Cemetery.

NOTE: Soldiers Died in the Great War show date of death as 24th August 1918; CWGC web site shows it as 24th August 1916.

This page was last updated on 11-Jan-2019.