The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private W Wellfare

Photograph by "International Wargraves Photography Project"

Private William WELLFARE, L/8307, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 26th October 1917.

Born Staplehurst, Kent, son of Henry & Anne Wellfare.

22nd October 1890, Staplehurst, Kent, baptism of William Wellfare son of Henry & Anne Wellfare.

Enlisted Maidstone, Kent.

1911 Census - Military, India - William Wellfare, Private, age 22, single, 2nd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, Soldier, born Staplehurst, Kent.

15th August 1914, posted BEF.

1914 December Quarter, Tonbridge Registration, William Wellfare, married Evelyn Elsie Diwell, born 10th September 1892, resided Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

Children - Daisy Evely Wellfare, born 11th March 1915, resided Tunbridge Wells, Kent; William Arthur Wellfare, born 25th January 1917, resided Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

Buried at Hooge Crater Cemetery, IX. J. 7., Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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