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• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Maidstone
• Land Kent, England
• Last residence 66 Payne Avenue
• Family Son of John and Elizabeth King; three brothers, Sydney, Herbert and Percy; three sisters, Isabel, Ada and Margaret;
• Education Paddock Wood
• Profession Gas fitter
• Extra info Husband of Edith King (nee Venables), of 102, Tamworth Rd., Hove, Sussex; after his death Edith re-married a Bushrod; his son Ronald was born in January 1916;

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 25 August 1914, Brighton
• Service number 46630
• Rank Corporal
• Medals M M
• Regiment and unit 98th Field Coy. Royal Engineers
• Other data related to military career to France 11 September 1915; Military Medal for gallantry in action on 3 October 1917

Death

• Wounded 4 November, Geluveld
• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds right chest, in n°3 Can CCS
• Died at the age of 28
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXI - GG - 16

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