Private Francis Thomas Childs

Army Number: 202222 formerly 5460

Battalion : 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Lived at Chiddingstone, Kent. Son of Walter and Amelia Childs, Blackham, Langton Green, Tunbridge Wells; Husband of Lilian Mary Childs, Keepers Cottage, Bough Beech, Eden Bridge, Kent. He was a farm labourer prior to enlisting on 10th April 1916 at Derby. He went to France on 19th July 1916 and was killed in action, 1st July 1917, age 37, in the attack on the German line to the west of Lens, France.

Commemorated : Arras Memorial, France. Bay 7.

Private Francis Thomas Childs is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
All Saint’s Church Lychgate Church War Memorial, Blackham, East Sussex.
St. Mary’s Church War Memorial, Chiddingstone, Kent.