November - a handful of those who were WW1 casualties.
George Frederick Kingsley was killed on 1st November 1918, aged 23, 11 days before the war ended on the 11th.
His Regiment was the Royal Berkshire and he is buried at the Hammersmith Old Cemetery
He married Charlotte E. Kingsley, of 233, Portland Rd., Notting Hill, London in 1917. Charlotte Emily died on 17th August 1962 at The Central Middlesex Hospital, London, a widow. Probate to Jennie Richardson, a spinster.
Captain Hanbury Lewis Kekewich Captain 16th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment. 74th Yeomanry Division. Killed in action near Sheria 6 November 1917, aged 32. Son of Lewis Pendarves & Lilian Emily Kekewich of 46, Brunswick Square, Hove. Husband of Mrs Dorothy Kekewich (remarried) of Bicester, Oxfordshire. Educated at Eton. Eton College Memorial and Forest Row Parish Memorials. Buried in Bersheeba War Cemetery. His brother Captain George Kekewich died on 28 October 1917 aged 28 in Palestine. Another brother, Captain John Kekewich was also killed in action at the Battle of Loos on 25 September 1915, aged 24. A fourth brother Lieutenant Sydney Kekewich, MBE served with the Lancers and survived the war. He received an MBE Gallantry Award in the King's Birthday Honour List in June 1919.
Frank Collett Reeve Beechey was one of eight young men from one family who went to fight in the First World War; only three came home. He died on 14 November 1916, aged 30, wounded at the Somme. The story of the family can be seen at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2060179/Armistice-Day-2011-...
Robert Frederick Drennan was a Private in the British Army, Leicestershire Regiment, 7th Battalion. Service #38652. He was a Prisoner of War at Gottingen POW Comp., Germany. Robert Fredrick Drennan died in Hessen, Germany on 12th November 1918 as a result of war-related sickness.
See more about Gottingen POW camp at http://navonanumis.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/gottingen-german-empire-p...
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