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Cpl. Frederick James Wickham
British Army 7th Btn. Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment
from:Chelsfield, Kent
(d.21st July 1917)
Corporal Frederick Wickham is remembered on the War Memorial in the porch of the parish church of St Martin of Tours, Chelsfield in Kent. He was killed in action on 21st July 1917 and is recorded on the Menin Gate memorial at Ypres. He was married to Alice Rosina Tomkins and his parents were the Mary Ann and the late Thomas Wickens. The 1911 census records that he was a farm labourer before he joined up in November 1914 and his attestation papers show that he had served in the army for six and a half years in the territorials.