Captain WILLIAM MILES KINGTON
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Welsh Fusiliers
1st Bn.
Date of Death
Died 20 October 1914
Age 38 years old
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Awards Distinguished Service Order, Four times Mentioned in Despatches
- Additional Info Son of Lt. Col. William Miles Nairne Kington (late 4th Hussars) and Harriet Sophia Kington, of Priory Lodge, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire; husband of Edith Soames, of Bryn Estyn, Wrexham, Denbighshire. Served in the South African Campaign.
- Personal Inscription BELOVED SON OF WILLIAM AND SOPHIA HUSBAND OF EDITH FATHER OF WILLIAM
- N.B. Recent research has shown that Captain Kington is buried here. A new headstone bearing his details will be dedicated to him at a ceremony on the 19th June 2019. Please contact the Commission for further details. Please note that this casualty was previously commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial; his name will be removed when the appropriate panel is next replaced.
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