The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte G A Wood

Private George Austen WOOD, 9560, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Enlisted 16th August 1915, Chatham, Kent, age 27, height 5ft 10 inches, resided King Street, Kings Square, West Malling, Kent / Bungalow, Lower Green, Pembury, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Formerly bricklayers labourer.

Son of Georgeotsway? Wood, King Street, Kings Square, West Malling, Kent.

Husband of Hetty Ivy Wood, (nee Burbridge, spinster), married 16th May 1916, West Malling, Kent.

Children - Alberta Audrey Buggs Burbridge, born 23rd June 1913, Northleet, Kent; Ivy Olive Wood, born 17th August 1916, Tonbridge, Kent;

Home, 16th August 1915 to 14th April 1916; BEF, 15th April 1916 to 25th May 1917; Home, 26th May 1917 to 5th April 1918.

16th August 1915, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 15th April 1916, posted BEF & 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 11th June 1916, posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 26th May 1917, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 26th May 1917, Springburn-Wood, Central Hospital Glasgow, admitted; 19th March 1918, Springburn-Wood, Central Hospital Glasgow, sent home to await discharge.

5th April 1918, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to wounds Silver War Badge issued.

Pension, 27/6 a week for 4 weeks, then 22/- a week for 48 weeks, conditional.

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