Name
Mark Kinchington
14 November 1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/09/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
10090
Hampshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TROIS ARBRES CEMETERY, STEENWERCK
III. S. 6.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
St Peter & St Paul Church Roll of Honour (2018 Revision), Little Gaddesden, Belton War Memorial and Roll of Honour, Lincs,
Pre War
Mark Kinchington was born on 14 November 1896 in Exbury, Hampshire, the son of George and Matilda Harriet Kinchington and one of 6 children. On the 1901 Census, the family were living at Inchmery, Exbury, Hampshire, where his father was working as a Gardener Domestic.
On the 1911 Census, they had moved to Fawley, Hampshire and Mark was working as a Gardener Domestic, the same as his father.
At some point he began working for Lord Brownlow on the Ashridge Estate, Herts and also at Lord Brownlow's other estate at Belton House, nr Grantham, Lincs. (He is named on the Little Gaddesden and Belton Rolls of Honour)
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Southampton and served as Lance Corporal with the 10th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment from 5 August 1915, initially in the Balkans (Gallipoli). He was later promoted to Corporal and transferred to the 2nd Battalion with which he served in France
He was killed in action on 3 September 1918 and is buried in Trois Arbes Cemetery, Steenwerck, France, having been reinterred there from another location and identified from his identity disc.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £19 10s and pay owing of £17 7s 1d. She also received a pension of 5 shillings a week. N.B. The surname on the Belton memorial and Roll of Honour is incorrectly spelled as Kisington.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
littlegaddesdenchurch,org.uk
