The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private W T Lees

Private Wilfred Thomas LEES, 202799, 8th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly 2186, Royal Warwickshire Regiment), killed in action, Flanders, France, 9th September 1917, age 19.

1898, born Walsall, Staffordshire, son of Francis John and Alice Lees, of 144, Selsey Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Warwickshire.

1911 Census - 132 Dale Street, Walsall, Staffordshire - Francis John Lees, head, age 35, married, boot salesman, worker, born Rugby, Warwickshire; Alice Lees, wife, age 36, married 14 years, 5 children, 4 still alive, born Walsall, Staffordshire; Wilfred Thomas Lees, son, age 12, school, born Walsall, Staffordshire; Frederick John Lee, son, age 7, school, born Birmingham; Francis Alice Lee, son, age 5, school, born Birmingham; Edmund Lee, son, age 2, born Birmingham.

Enlisted Birmingham, Warwickshire. Resided Birmingham, Warwickshire.

22nd March 1915, posted BEF.

Commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 106 to 108, Belgium.

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