Walter Ernest Kent

A Deck Hand with H.M. Trawler Princess Beatrice. Walter died on 5th of October 1914 at the age of 22. 

Walter was born at Lowestoft on 22 May 1892, a son of William and Mary Ann Kent. He was baptised at Saint Margaret's Church, Lowestoft, on 3 July 1892, and his family lived at 75 Seago Street and this was their home in 1901. Later they lived at 44 Rotterdam Road,  Lowestoft.

In 1911 Walter was the Fourth Hand on the trawler Young Percy at Padstow.  

Walter joined the Royal Naval Reserve on 19 August 1914. Walter served on board the converted trawler Princess Beatrice and was killed, with the rest of the crew, when the vessel was sunk by a  mine off the Belgian Coast on 5th October 1914. 

Note Royal Naval Service records give his date of birth as 22 May, but the baptism register at Saint Margaret's Church states 22 February, but his birth was registered in the second quarter of 1892, hence the months April, May and June.