The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Sergeant C W A Ward

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Serjeant Charles William Arthur WARD, L/10003, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, deathg presumed on or aftere, 26th October 1917, age 22.

Born Woolwich, Kent, son of Thomas and Mary Alice Ward, 1A, Morley Road, Charlton, Kent.

1911 Census - 1A, Morley Road, Woolwich Road, Charlton, Kent - Thomas Ward, head, age 49, married, saddler Royal Dockyard, (Army Pensioner),  born Staines Fridd?? Essex; Mary Ward, wife, age 44, married 19 years, 8 children, all still alive, born Bermuda, India; Thomas Ward, son, age 18, single, soldier, born Blackheath, Kent. Kate Ward, daughter, age 16, single, daily service, domestic, born Woolwich, Kent; Arthur Ward, son, age 15, single, van boy Mineral Water Works, born Woolwich, Kent; Albert Ward, son, age 13, school, born Charlton, Kent; Ivy Ward, daughter, age 11, school, born Blackheath, Kent; Edith Ward, daughter, age 9, school, born Blackheath, Kent; George Ward, son, age 7, school, born Blackheath, Kent; Ernest Ward, son, age 4, born Blackheath, Kent; Thomas Ward, Father, age 72, widower, Old Age Pensioner, born Winkfield, Berkshire.

Enlisted New Cross, Kent.  Resided Charlton, Kent.

15th August 1914, posted BEF; 26th October 1917, posted missing.

Commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 106 to 108, Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.