The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Quartermaster Sergeant C F Woods

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Quartermaster Serjeant Charles Frederick WOODS, G/6308, Depot, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died, Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich, brain tumour, 5th March 1920, age 45.

Son of Robert and Francis Woods, of Victoria Park, South Hackney.

15th September 1906, Parish Church, Woolwich, married Emmeline Attle, 9, Bridge Road, Burgess Road, East Ham E.

Children - Arthur Charles Benjamin Woods, born 23rd January 1909, Stratford;

1911 Census -  9, Bridge Road, East Ham E. - Charles Frederick Woods, head, age 36, married, clerk (Law), worker, born Hackney, London; Emmeline Woods, wife, age 32, married 4 years, 1 child, still alive, born Hackney, London; Arthur Charles Benjamin Woods, son, age 2, born Stratford, London; Harriet Attle, mother in law, age 66, widow, born City, London.

Children - Albert Kinsbee Woods, born 21st April 1911, born East Ham.

Enlisted Woolwich, Kent, age 40 years & 242 days, height 5ft 5 inches, weight 164lbs, varicose vein right leg.  Resided 9 Bridge Road, Burgess Road, East Ham E. Formerly clerk.

Home 18th April 1915 to 5th March 1920.

18th April 1915, enlisted; 11th May 1915, Woolwich Dockyard, appointed Acting Corporal;

Children - Irene Blanche Alfreda Woods, born 8th November 1915, Woolwich, baptised 30th January 1916.

 17th January 1917, Depot, Woolwich Dockyard, appointed Acting Sergeant; 23rd May 1917, Woolwich Dockyard, Acting Sergeant C F Woods, appointed unpaid Acting Company Quartermaster Sergeant; 28th April 1919, Woolwich Dockyard, volunteered to serve one year, with Armies of Occupation,  in the rank of Private, retains Acting rank of SQMS.

17th October 1920, date when Separation Allowance of 39/- a week payable to wife will cease.

18th October 1920, Pension of 35/7 awarded to widow, 23/6 for children.

Buried at Greenwich Cemetery, Screen Wall. 1 "C." B. 1281, London.

NOTE: this soldier does not appear in the Regimental History Roll of Honour or in Soldiers Died in the Great War; but he is included on the CWGC web site.