BORN GOSPORT, HAMPSHIRE, 27/12/1899. SON OF TOM KENT & ANN STAVELEY, GOSPORT, HANTS AND 34 DERBY STREET, HULL. ONE OF ELEVEN CHILDREN. EDUCATED AT THE ROYAL MARINES SCHOOL, GOSPORT AND THEN MIDDLETON STREET SCHOOL, HULL. HE WAS UNMARRIED AND EMPLOYED AT A SLATE WORKS. ENLISTED HULL, OCTOBER 1914. SERVED WITH THE BEF IN FRANCE FROM SEPTEMBER 1915. WOUNDED 01/01/1916. DIED OF WOUNDS AT 1ST CANADIAN HOSPITAL, ETAPLES, ON 05/01/1916, AGED 17. HE IS RECORDED WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH IN THE DE RUVIGNEY ROLL OF HONOUR. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 11/01/1916. *
HIS FATHER TOM KENT, WAS A LONG SERVING ROYAL MARINE, WHO DIED IN HULL ON 05/01/1916, AGED 50.
First name:
JOHN ROBERT
Military Number:
2693
Rank:
Private
Date Died
05/01/1916
Place died:
Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
Age:
17
