The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

A/Sgt H Larter

Acting Sergeant Harry LARTER, 9317, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Enlisted 23rd July 1915, Maidstone, Kent, age 28, height 6ft 0½ inch, resided 31 Grecian Street, Maidstone, Kent. Formerly Police Constable.

Husband of Mabel Daisy Larter, (nee Baker, spinster), married 28th January 1911, Maidstone, Kent.

Child - Harry Cyril Larter, born 13th March 1911, Maidstone, Kent.

Home, 23rd July 1915 to 2nd May 1916; BEF, 3rd May 1916 to 17th September 1916; Home, 18th September 1916 to 12th November 1917.

23rd July 1915, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 4th August 1915, posted 10th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 5th August 1915, appointed Temporary Acting Corporal; 5th August 1915, appointed unpaid Lance Sergeant; 17th September 1915, appointed Acting Lance Sergeant, 3rd May 1916, posted BEF; 18th September 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 4th November 1916, posted Eastern Command Depot, Shoreham, Sussex; 4th May 1917, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 4th June 1917, transferred to Class "W" Army Reserve

12th November 1917, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to wounds. Silver War Badge issued.

Descriptive marks on discharge, appendicitis scar & amputated toe left foot.

Pension 9/9 a week to be reviewed in 52 weeks. Disability, gun shot wound hand.

This page was last updated on 30-Jun-2014.