KENNINGTON - Kent Fallen
KENNINGTON - Kent Fallen
KENNINGTON - Kent Fallen
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BURCHETT A.E<br />
St Mary’s<br />
Railway<br />
Marine<br />
Corporal T/1367 Alfred Edward BURCHETT, H Company, 5 th Battalion, The Buffs (East <strong>Kent</strong><br />
Regiment). Died of disease (Acute gastritis) Sunday 6 th June 1915 aged 25 years. Born Barham<br />
near Canterbury. Enlisted 8 August 1914 at Ashford. Resided 37, Star Road, Ashford, <strong>Kent</strong>. Son<br />
of George and Mary Ann Burchett, 90 Albemarle Road, Willesborough, Ashford, <strong>Kent</strong>. Later<br />
residing 7 Wallis Road, Ashford, <strong>Kent</strong>. Husband of Edith Emily Burchett, Ball Lane, Kennington,<br />
Ashford, <strong>Kent</strong>. Later residing Goat Lees, Kennington, Ashford, <strong>Kent</strong>. Brother of Ethel May<br />
Burchett, 37 Star Road, Ashford, <strong>Kent</strong>. Alfred has no known grave. His name appears on the<br />
Kirkee 1914-1918 Memorial near Poona and Bombay, India. Panel reference -3.<br />
Children<br />
Alfred Edwin Burchett Born 29 May 1913 at Ball Lane, Kennington, Ashford, <strong>Kent</strong>.<br />
It appears that Alfred’s father died before 1923.<br />
Before the outbreak of war Alfred was working in the Ashford Railway Yards as a Carriage Fitter.<br />
His name appears on the Ashford Railway Works Rolls of Honour.<br />
Alfred died of acute gastritis at Kamptee in India. His battalion was at the time of his death at<br />
Amarah in Mesopotamia (Iraq). It follows that Alfred must have stayed in India when his battalion<br />
moved from India to Mesopotamia in 1916. Alfred left a wife and one young son both of whom<br />
continued to live in Ashford.<br />
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