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Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man:
Regimental Quartermaster Serjeant Charles James Kew. Born on the 30^th July 1871 in Massachusetts, U.S.A., a British subject by parentage. He was the son of James and Keziah Kew née Ives. His father was a compositor. On the 22^nd January 1883 he was admitted to the Beethoven Street School, Paddington having previously attended Holy Trinity School, Paddington and was living with his widowed mother at 104 Sixth Avenue, Queens Park. In June 1886 he was appointed as a Telegraph Messenger in Paddington and in May 1890 was promoted to Postman. The 1891 census shows him living at 48 Ilbert Street, Kensal Town. On the 26^th September 1892 he married Jane Nicholas at St Peters Church, Paddington and they were shown to be living at 26 Edbrooke Road, Paddington. In May 1894 he was promoted to the grade of Sorter in the G.P.O. The 1901 census still shows them living at 26 Edbrooke Road, but by 1911 the census shows them at ‘Glenmaye’, Westcliff, Southend-on-Sea, Essex and his occupation shows he remained as a Letter Sorter. He was one of the first people to join the Royal Defence Corps which was formed in 1917 and his service number was 14. He died of heart failure on the 8^th May 1919 at 23 Courtfield Gardens, Earls Court, London, aged 48 years. Probate was granted to his widow and this showed they had both been living at 11, Salterford Road, Tooting. His effects totalled £269-13s-6d, but his widow was subsequently granted a War Gratuity of £23. He is buried in the Hanwell (Kensington and Chelsea) Cemetery, 31 Uxbridge Road, Hanwell, London, and is commemorated there on the Screen Wall (96.7).

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