Name
Bernard Edward Kent (MM)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
29/03/1918
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
265908
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st/1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Military Medal
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Plot I, Row H, Grave 29.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, Beechen Grove Baptist Church Memorial, Watford, St James' Church Memorial, Watford Fields, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Son of Alfred and Louisa (nee GRIFFIN) KENT of Weedon, Bucks.
His parents married 1876 in the Westminster, London, district. Alfred died 4 November 1929 in Watford aged 80, and was buried 8 November in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; Louisa died 6 August 1939 in Croxley Green, Herts, and was buried 19 August, also in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
Bernard was born 1892 in Weedon, and resided in Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 8 he lived in Watford, with his parents and six siblings. On the 1911 Census, an engineer’s labourer aged 18, he still lived in Watford, with his parents and five siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hertford, and was formerly Private 3244 Hertfordshire Regiment. He was awarded the Military Medal posthumously during Mary 1918.
He was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 23 January 1915, and died at No. 2 Stationary Hospital of wounds received in action.
Additional Information
There is an article about Bernard in Watford in the 20th Century, part 1; and a Death announcement in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 6 April 1918. Recorded as KENT B F in the Borough Roll of Honour. His brother Albert died 22 April 1918 and also features on Watford Borough Roll of Honour. Unfortunately, Bernard’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
