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Personal data

• Name DREWETT
• Initials WJ
• First name WILLIAM JAMES
• Place of birth Bromley
• Country Kent, England
• Last residence Forest Hill
• Family Son of Walter Drewett and Eleanor (Ellen) Howard; one brother, Edwin George Frederic.
• Profession Carman
• Extra info Husband of Mary Jane Drewett, of Bird-in-Hand Cottages, Dartmouth Rd., Forest Hill, London.
  Four daughters: Annie (1892), Eleanor Gertrude (Nel - 1895), Dorothy Kate (Dolly - 1902), Lily Margaret (Lil - 1909); five sons: William Walter James (1897), Frederick Charles (Charlie - 1900), Arthur Henry (Tom - 1905), George Thomas (Harry - 1905) and William Francis (Sam - 1913)

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment Lewisham
• Service number G/9904
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 11th Bn. Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)
• Division - Brigade 122nd Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 41st Division
• National force B.E.F.

Death

• Type of wounds Killed in action
• Date of death 10 April 1917
• Died at the age of 44
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XI - C - 34

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