The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Sergeant J Wescombe

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Serjeant John W WESCOMBE, S/8793, 10th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died, 24th  February 1919.

Son of John &  Jane Wescombe, of 40, Foxwell Street, Brockley, London.

1911 Census - 40, Foxwell Street, Brockley, SE - John Wescombe, head, age 44, married, labourer, building,  not working, born Kent; Jane Wescombe, wife, age 42, married 21 years, 10 children, 9 still alive, born Yorkshire; Mable Wescombe, daughter, age 22, single, born Yorkshire; Lilly Wescombe, daughter, age 20, single, born Yorkshire; Walden Wescombe, son, age 16, single, born Sussex; John Wescombe, son, age 14, born Kent; Jim Wescombe, son, age 11, born Brockley, Kent; Tilly Wescombe, daughter, age 9, born Brockley, Kent; George Wescombe, son, age 6, born Brockley, Kent; Dolly Wescombe, daughter, age 4, born Brockley, Kent; Edwin Wescombe, son, age 6 months, born Brockley, Kent.

24th March 1915, posted BEF.

Commemorated at Brockley Cemetery, Screen Wall. A. 1827., Lewisham, 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.