William Albert Winter

First nameWilliam Albert
Initials
SurnameWinter
Birth Town
Resided TownHollingbourne, Maidstone, Kent
NationalityBritish
Date of Death06/05/1918
FateDied at Home
RankPrivate
Service Number14585 formerly 2424 in Royal East Kent Mounted Rifles
Duty Location
Campaign Medals
  • Victory Medal
  • British War Medal
  • Memorial Death Plaque Of WWI
ServiceBritish Army
Regiment2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen’s Bays) Formerly Royal East Kent East Kent Mounted Rifles (REKMR)
Battalion1st Battalion
Commemorated
  • Britain in the Hollingbourne Roll of Honour and on the Hollingbourne War Memorial.
  • Britain on the Remembrance Board at the Parish Church of St Michael & All Angels, Maidstone
  • His Grave photographed here is in the Churchyard at All Saints Church, Hollingbourne

William lived in Hollingbourne and enlisted at Canterbury in the Royal East Kent Mounted Rifles and later joined the 2nd Dragoon Guards. He was wounded in France on November 26th 1917. He died at home of those wounds on 6th May 1918. He is on the Board at St Michael & All Angels Maidstone so must have attended Church there or had family connections to the Church. Hollingbourne is4 miles from Maidstone.