The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

L/Cpl H C Holland

Lance Corporal Henry Cornelius HOLLAND, 8758, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Enlisted 5th July 1915, Maidstone, Kent, age 40, height 5ft 8¼ inches, resided North Street, Sutton Valence, Maidstone, Kent. Formerly farm labourer.

Husband of Edith Holland, (nee Holland), North Street, Sutton Valence, Maidstone, Kent, married 9th December 1906, Chart Sutton, Maidstone, Kent.

Children - William Holland, born 5th December 1907, Chart Sutton, Maidstone, Kent; Marjorie Holland, born, 20th October 1908, Chart Sutton, Maidstone, Kent; Lily Holland, born 11th January 1911, Chart Sutton, Maidstone, Kent.

Home, 5th July 1915 to 2nd May 1916; BEF, 3rd May 1916 to 3rd November 1917; Home, 4th November 1917 to 3rd January 1918.

5th July 1915, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 5th July 1915, posted 10th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 29th October 1915, appointed unpaid Lance Corporal; 21st February 1916, apointed paid Lance Corporal; 3rd May 1916, posted BEF; 4th November 1917, posted Depot; 13th December 1917, 1st Western General Hospital, Fazakerley, remains in Chalet |VAD.

3rd January 1918, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to sickness. Silver War Badge issued

Pension, 27/6 for 4 weeks, then 22/- a week to be reviewed in 26 weeks. Disability rheumatism.

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