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Luddesdown Kent [2]

Surrey [2]

Aldershot [1]

Bath Somerset [1]

Beckley. Kent [1]

Benenden, nr Cranbrook, Kent [1]

Bow Street, Lisburn, County Antrim. [1]

Boxmoor,Hemel Hempstead,Herts [1]

Brixton, London [1]

Cambrwell, Surrey [1]

Catford, Lewisham, London [1]

Chart Sutton, Kent [1]

Crayford Kent [1]

Croydon Surrey [1]

Dalston, London [1]

Deal [1]

East Malling Kent [1]

Erdington Aston Birmingham Warwickshire [1]

Eriswell Suffolk [1]

Farnham, Surrey [1]

Folkestone Kent [1]

Gravesend Kent [1]

Gretton, Northamptonshire [1]

Hammersmith Middlesex [1]

Headley, Hampshire [1]

Hollingbourne, Kent [1]

Islington London [1]

Islington Middlesex [1]

Lenham, Kent [1]

Littleover Derbyshire [1]

Reigate Surrey [1]

Rochester Kent [1]

Stoke Newington [1]

Tewkesbury [1]

Ulcombe Kent [1]

West Haddon [1]

Westminster Middlesex [1]

Willesden Middlesex [1]

Rank

Private [81]

Lance Corporal [10]

Second Lieutenant [9]

Serjeant [9]

Lieutenant [8]

Corporal [7]

Captain [4]

Driver [2]

Warrant Officer Class 2 [2]

Acting Company Serjeant Major [1]

Acting Corporal [1]

Air Mechanic 3rd Class [1]

Appointed Acting Corporal [1]

Appointed Paid L/Cpl [1]

Appointed unpaid L/Cpl [1]

Bugler [1]

Captain Acting Major [1]

Company Quarter Master Serjeant [1]

Company Serjeant Major [1]

Corporl [1]

Corporol [1]

L/Cpl [1]

L/cpl [1]

Lieutenant Colonel [1]

Major [1]

PRIVATE [1]

Pioneer [1]

Private 2nd Class [1]

Private. Granted Prof. Pay Class 1 [1]

Promoted Corporol [1]

Pte [1]

Sapper [1]

Temp 2nd Lt. [1]

pte [1]

Unit

The Queen's Regiment [49]

The Queens Regiment [38]

Labour Corps [17]

The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) [12]

Queens Royal West Surrey [10]

The Queens Regiment Territorial Force [7]

Royal Engineers [6]

Royal Flying Corps [4]

Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment [3]

Royal Air Force [3]

Royal West Kent Regiment [3]

Suffolk Regiment [3]

The Queens Bays [3]

The Queens Regiment Transport [3]

The Queens Royal West Surrey [3]

East Kent Regiment [2]

East Surrey Regiment [2]

Machine Gun Corps [2]

Queens (Royal West Surrey) Regiment [2]

Royal Fusiliers [2]

Royal West Surrey Regiment [2]

"Queens" Royal West Surrey Regiment [1]

1st Surrey Yeomanry [1]

1st The Queens Regiment [1]

Army Service Corps [1]

Attached to the Queens Westminster Rifles [1]

Battalion Canadian Rifles [1]

Border Regiment [1]

Buffs (East Kent Regiment) [1]

Depot Queens Regiment [1]

East Kent Regient. The Buffs. [1]

East Kent Regiment. The Buffs. [1]

East Lancashire Regiment [1]

General Service. Attested [1]

General Service. Promoted to Army Reserve [1]

Gloucestershire Regiment [1]

Grenadier Guards [1]

Honourable Artillery Column [1]

Inns of Court Regiment [1]

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry [1]

Labour Corps ex The Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment [1]

Labour Corps. [1]

Middlesex Regiment [1]

Mobilized & Posted. East Surryey Regiment [1]

Norfolk Regiment [1]

Punjabis [1]

QUEENS OWN WEST KENT REGIMENT [1]

Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) [1]

Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) [1]

Queen's Own Regiment of Glasgow Yeomanry [1]

Service

British Army [112]

Air Force (RAF/RFC) [1]

Last name first letter

H [14]

C [13]

A [11]

M [11]

G [10]

B [9]

P [9]

W [8]

S [5]

D [4]

R [4]

F [2]

J [2]

K [2]

N [2]

O [2]

T [2]

E [1]

L [1]

Contribution

Military Service [111]

Country

United Kingdom [22]

Ireland [1]

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People [112] Stories Communities

Place of birth

Luddesdown Kent [2] Surrey [2] Aldershot [1] Bath Somerset [1] Beckley. Kent [1] Benenden, nr Cranbrook, Kent [1] Bow Street, Lisburn, County Antrim. [1] Boxmoor,Hemel Hempstead,Herts [1] Brixton, London [1] Cambrwell, Surrey [1] Catford, Lewisham, London [1] Chart Sutton, Kent [1] Crayford Kent [1] Croydon Surrey [1] Dalston, London [1] Deal [1] East Malling Kent [1] Erdington Aston Birmingham Warwickshire [1] Eriswell Suffolk [1] Farnham, Surrey [1] Folkestone Kent [1] Gravesend Kent [1] Gretton, Northamptonshire [1] Hammersmith Middlesex [1] Headley, Hampshire [1] Hollingbourne, Kent [1] Islington London [1] Islington Middlesex [1] Lenham, Kent [1] Littleover Derbyshire [1] Reigate Surrey [1] Rochester Kent [1] Stoke Newington [1] Tewkesbury [1] Ulcombe Kent [1] West Haddon [1] Westminster Middlesex [1] Willesden Middlesex [1]

Rank

Private [81] Lance Corporal [10] Second Lieutenant [9] Serjeant [9] Lieutenant [8] Corporal [7] Captain [4] Driver [2] Warrant Officer Class 2 [2] Acting Company Serjeant Major [1] Acting Corporal [1] Air Mechanic 3rd Class [1] Appointed Acting Corporal [1] Appointed Paid L/Cpl [1] Appointed unpaid L/Cpl [1] Bugler [1] Captain Acting Major [1] Company Quarter Master Serjeant [1] Company Serjeant Major [1] Corporl [1] Corporol [1] L/Cpl [1] L/cpl [1] Lieutenant Colonel [1] Major [1] PRIVATE [1] Pioneer [1] Private 2nd Class [1] Private. Granted Prof. Pay Class 1 [1] Promoted Corporol [1] Pte [1] Sapper [1] Temp 2nd Lt. [1] pte [1]

Unit

The Queen's Regiment [49] The Queens Regiment [38] Labour Corps [17] The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) [12] Queens Royal West Surrey [10] The Queens Regiment Territorial Force [7] Royal Engineers [6] Royal Flying Corps [4] Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment [3] Royal Air Force [3] Royal West Kent Regiment [3] Suffolk Regiment [3] The Queens Bays [3] The Queens Regiment Transport [3] The Queens Royal West Surrey [3] East Kent Regiment [2] East Surrey Regiment [2] Machine Gun Corps [2] Queens (Royal West Surrey) Regiment [2] Royal Fusiliers [2] Royal West Surrey Regiment [2] "Queens" Royal West Surrey Regiment [1] 1st Surrey Yeomanry [1] 1st The Queens Regiment [1] Army Service Corps [1] Attached to the Queens Westminster Rifles [1] Battalion Canadian Rifles [1] Border Regiment [1] Buffs (East Kent Regiment) [1] Depot Queens Regiment [1] East Kent Regient. The Buffs. [1] East Kent Regiment. The Buffs. [1] East Lancashire Regiment [1] General Service. Attested [1] General Service. Promoted to Army Reserve [1] Gloucestershire Regiment [1] Grenadier Guards [1] Honourable Artillery Column [1] Inns of Court Regiment [1] King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry [1] Labour Corps ex The Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment [1] Labour Corps. [1] Middlesex Regiment [1] Mobilized & Posted. East Surryey Regiment [1] Norfolk Regiment [1] Punjabis [1] QUEENS OWN WEST KENT REGIMENT [1] Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) [1] Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) [1] Queen's Own Regiment of Glasgow Yeomanry [1]

Service

British Army [112] Air Force (RAF/RFC) [1]

Last name first letter

H [14] C [13] A [11] M [11] G [10] B [9] P [9] W [8] S [5] D [4] R [4] F [2] J [2] K [2] N [2] O [2] T [2] E [1] L [1]

Contribution

Military Service [111]

Country

United Kingdom [22] Ireland [1]

Clarence Jarman

Born 1896

Died 1996

British Army G/1644 Private The Queen's Regiment

British Army The Queens Regiment 7th Bn.

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James Albert Goodwin

Born 1886

Died 1916

British Army G 12704 Private The Queen's Regiment

British Army 12704 Private Queens Own Royal Surrey 7th Batt

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Albert John Porter

Born 1887

Died 1959

British Army G/5933 Private The Queen's Regiment

British Army 5933 Private Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment 8th Battalion

British Army 5933 Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment 8th Battallion A Company

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Charles James Weeks

Born 1879

Died 1918

British Army G12965 Private The Queen's Regiment

British Army G/12965 Private Queens Royal West Surrey Reg't 2nd Batt

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William T Tickner

British Army 7612 Corporal The Queens Regiment

British Army 243281 Corporal The Queens Regiment

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Frederick William Turner

Born 1889

Died 1918

British Army G/14846 Private The Queen's Regiment

British Army G. 14846 Private The Queens Royal West Surrey 1st Batt.

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William Frederick Henry Holmans

Born 1891

Died 1945

British Army 3080 Private East Kent Regiment

British Army G/24802 Private The Queen's Regiment

British Army Private Queens Royal West Kent 10th Battalion

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Frederick Banfield

Born 1876

British Army 47275 Private The Queen's Regiment

British Army 73819 Private Labour Corps

British Army 47275+73819 Queens Regiment+Royal West Surrey 16th Labour Company

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John Thomas Goodwin

Born 1882

Died 1917

British Army G/40118 Private The Queen's Regiment

British Army G.40118 Acting Corporal Queens Royal West Surrey 6th Batt

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Horace Flexon Andrews

Born 1881

Died 1916

British Army L/6986 (Incomplete) Private The Queen's Regiment

British Army L.6986 Private Queens West Surrey 2nd Batt

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Fred Murrell

Born 1894

Died 1918

British Army L/10618 Private The Queen's Regiment

British Army L.10618 Private Queens Royal West Surrey 10th Batt.

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Horace Flexon Andrews

Born 1881

Died 1916

British Army L/6986 Private The Queen's Regiment 1st Battalion

British Army L.6986 Private Queens Royal West Surrey 2nd Btn

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Harry William Francis Ponter

Born 1889

Died 1918

British Army Second Lieutenant The Queens Regiment attached King's Royal Rifle Corps

British Army Lieutenant The Queens Regiment attached King's Royal Rifle Corps

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Henry Duncan Ryan Reilly

Born 1895

Died 1919

British Army Captain The Queens Regiment attached East Surrey Regiment

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Walter Gammage

Born 1884

Died 1918

British Army G/21973 Private The Queen's Regiment

British Army G/21973 L/Cpl Queens (royal West Surrey Regiment)

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John W Woodnott

Born 1894

Died 1917

British Army G/11630 Private The Queen's Regiment

British Army G/11630 Lance Corporal Queens (Royal West Surrey) Regiment 11th Battalion

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James Philpott

Born 1894

Died 1917

British Army 28050 Private Suffolk Regiment

British Army G/21007 Private The Queen's Regiment

British Army 21007 Private The Queens Royal West Surrey 2nd bn.

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William E Garrett

British Army G/39558 Private The Queens Regiment

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Joseph J Almond

British Army G/64100 Private The Queens Regiment

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William Winder

British Army G/37188 Private The Queens Regiment

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