The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

L/Cpl A C Nicholls

Lance Corporal Albert Charles NICHOLLS, 3166, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Born Bow, London, Middlesex, enlisted Fulham, 10th September 1914, age 22, height 5fgt 8½ inches, weight 145lbs. Formerly printer, apprentice 1907 to 1912.

Husband of May Nicholls, 6 Jervis Road, Fulham.

Children - Albert Barrington Nicholls, born 16th May 1913; Barrington Charles Nicholls, born 24th September 1914.

Home, 10th September 1914 to 29th August 1915; BEF, 30th August 1915 to 2nd October 19105; Home, 3rd October 1915 to 2nd May 1916.

10th September 1914, enlisted: 12th September 1914, posted 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 13th January 1915, appointed Lance Corporal; 3rd October 1915, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment.

18th March 1916, Maidstone, Kent, Medical Report - Disability wounds of ilium (pelvis), thigh & finger. Date & Origin of Disability, 26th September 1915, Loos in France. He states that whilst charging the enemy he was wounded by shrapnel in the thigh & by a bullet in the hip on the right side , also by a bullet in the left middle finger. He lay where he fell for 38 hours & was then picked up & removed to Bethune then to Rouen returning to England about October 4th 1915 to Manchester where he was treated at the 2nd Western General Hospital for a fortnight. He was then transferred to Townley's Military Hospital, Bolton where he was operated upon. There is a scar over the right anterior superior spine of ilium and another on the front of the same thigh above the knee. He complains of pain in the right hip joint which runs down the front of the thigh. There is apparent shortening of the right limb owing to obliquity of the pelvis. The right anterior superior spine being on a higher level than the left. The movement of the right hip joint is restricted and the right thigh is over half an inch smaller in girth than the left, measured just below the fold of the nates which on this side is not well marked. The ?????? shows damage to the ilium about the acetabulium. He has also a scar on the left middle finger and the joint is stiff.

2nd May 1916, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to wounds Silver War Badge issued.

Separation Allowance paid to 7th May 1916. Pension, 18/9 a week for 6 months conditional. Children 2/- a week for two. Disability prevents ¾.

4th October 1916, Invalid Board, disability prevents ¾, pension 24/- a week for 6 months, expires 2nd May 1917.

18th April 1917, Invalid Board, disability prevents ½, pension 22/- a week & 7/4 a week for two children from 4th April 1917, then 13/9 a week & 4/7 for two children for 26 weeks, expires 6th November 1917.

10th October 1917, Invalid Board, disability prevents 30%, pension 8/3 a week for 52 weeks, & 2/9 for two children. Also 2/6 a week for each of two children from 7th September 1916 to 2nd November 1916. Expires 5th November 1918.

12th September 1918, Invalid Board, disability prevents 30%, pension 8/3 a week for 65 weeks & 3/6 a week for two children. Expires 3rd February 1920.

1st December 1919, Invalid Board, disability prevents less than 20%, gratuity final £41.5.0.

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