The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private H A Farmer

Private Herbert Arthur FARMER, 11208, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Enlisted 17th November 1915, Sevenoaks, Kent, age 24, height 5ft 8 inches, resided Pond Farm, Stone Street, Nr Sevenoaks, Kent / Foxbury Farm, Stone Street, Nr Sevenoaks, Kent / Bitchett Cottages, Stone Street, Nr Sevenoaks, Kent. Formerly horseman.

Son of William Farmer, Summerhill Cottage, Marden, Kent.

Home 17th November 1915 to 2nd May 1916; BEF, 3rd May 1916 to 10th October 1917; Home, 11th October 1917 to 16th January 1918.

17th November 1915, enlisted, posted Depot, posted 10th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 3rd May 1916, embarked BEF; 11th October 1917, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 16th January 1918, Ontario Military Hospital, Orpington, Kent.

16th January 1918, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to sickness. Silver War Badge issued

Pension 27/6 a week for 4 weeks, then 11/- a week to be reviewed in 48 weeks. Disability, pleurisy.

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