The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte E P Lock

Private Edwin Powell LOCK, 9006, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Enlisted 13th July 1915, Lewisham, age 36, height 5ft 3 inches, resided 124 Courthill Road, Lewisham. Formerly French polisher.

Husband to Margaret Lock, (nee Roche, spinster), married 25th December 1902, St Clements Church, Barnsbury, Westbourne Road, Islington, London.

Children - Mary Frances Jane Lock, born 11th May 1903, Holloway; Catherine Lock, born 12th June 1905, Holloway; George Thomas Walter Lock, born 24th January 1907, Finsbury; Edwin Horace Lock, born 26th August 1909, Lewisham; Margaret Marie Lock, born 3rd September 1912, Lewisham; Dennis Gregory Lock, born 5th March 1916, Lewisham.

Home, 13th July 1916 to 2nd May 1916; BEF, 3rd May 1916 to 25th September 1916; Home, 26th September 19106 to 15th March 1917.

13th July 1915, enlisted & posted 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 3rd May 1916, posted BEF; 15th September 1916, wounded; 26th September 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment.

15th March 1917, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to wounds. Silver War Badge issued.

Pension, 25/- a week for 3 months, then 18/9 a week for 3 months conditional.

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