The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private F Goss

Photograph by "Military Historian"

Private Frederick GOSS, G/18299, 11th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 21st December 1916.

Born Southgate, London, W.

20th May 1912, Parish Church, Hornsey Rise, Islington, Frederick Goss, age 22, bachelor, fishmonger?, 6 St Marys Hill, father, Thomas Goss (deceased), fishmonger?, married Emily Kate Charlton, age 19, spinster, 6 St Marys Hill, father, Arthur Joseph Charlton, plumber.

Children - Frederick Goss, born 15th August 1914, Finchley; Albert Goss , born 15th August 1914, Finchley.

Enlisted Brighton, Sussex, age 21 years & 1 month, height 5ft 5½ inches, weight 134lbs. Resided 87 Hanover Street, Brighton, Sussex / 10 Enfield Gardens, Gordon Road, Hornsey Vale / 39 Gordon Road, Hornsey Vale. Formerly builders labourer.

Home 7th December 1915 to 5th September 1916; BEF 6th September 1916 to 21st December 1916.

7th December 1915, enlisted; 8th December 1915, to Army Reserve; 10th April 1916, mobilized; 12th April 1916, posted 12th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 1st September 1916, posted 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 6th September 1916, embarked; 18th September 1916, joined 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

1917, September Quarter, Edmonton Registration District, Emily Kate Goss, married James M Wells.

9th July 1917, pension of 22/11 a week awarded to widow & two children.

Buried at Dickebusch New Military Cemetery, M. 16., Belgium.

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