The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Sergeant F A Bendell

Serjeant Frederick Albert BENDELL, G/11374, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders, France, death assumed on or after 7th October 1916.

Born Fendstone, Norfolk, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Bendell, of Walcott Green, Diss, Norfolk.

1911 Census - Walcot Green, Diss - William Bendell, head, age 58, married, farm labourer, born Stuston, Suffolk; Therzia Bendell, wife, age 58, married 23 years, 11 children, 10 still alive, born Mellis, Suffolk; Thomas Arthur Bendell, age 20, son, single, farm labourer, born Thrandeston, Suffolk; Frederick Albert Bendell, age18, son, single. farm labourer, born Thrandeston, Suffolk; Albert Edward Bendell, son, single, age 16, farm labourer, born Stuston, Suffolk; Lilly Constance Bendell, daughter, age 13, single, school girl, born Stuston, Suffolk; Beatrice Annie Bendell, daughter, age 7, school girl, born Stuston, Suffolk; Harold Sidney Bendell, son, age 3, single, born Diss, Norfolk.

1915 September Quarter, Tonbridge District, marriage to Ethel Caroline Fuller of Bull Lane Cottages, Hook Green, Lamberhurst, Kent.

Enlisted Tunbridge Wells, Kent, age 22, height 5ft 5 inches. Resided Beech Hill Cottages, Matfield, Kent. Formerly labourer.

Home 29th November 1915 to 22nd March 1916; BEF 23rd March 1916 to 25th June 1916; Home 26th June 1916 to 28th September 1916; BEF 29th September 1916 to 7th October 1916

29th November 1915, enlisted; 11th March 1916, appointed Lance Corporal; 23rd March 1916, embarked; 23rd June 1916, wounded severe, gun shot wound to right shoulder; 26th June 1916, to Hospital Ship "St Denis" ex 14 General Hospital, Wimereux; 26th June 1916, to 25th July 1916, VAD Yacht Club Hospital, shell wound, right shoulder, shrapnel removed under general anaesthetic; 12th September 1916, promoted Sergeant; 13th September 1916, embarked; 29th September 1916, joined Battalion; 7th October 1916, posted missing.

24th June 1917, date which Separation Allowance of 14/- a week & allotment of pay 6d a week ceases.

25th June 1917, awarded pension of 21/3 a week for widow, (now Bailey) and one child.

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 11C, Somme, France.

NOTE: Regimental History spells name BENDALL.

This page was last updated on 27-Dec-2016.