The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte H R G Fox

Private Harry Robert George FOX, 8357, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Enlisted 7th June 1915, Lewisham, age 37, height 5ft 5 inches, resided 38 Russell St, Sydenham. Formerly fishmonger.

Husband of Annie Eleanor Fox, (nee Kemp), 38 Russell St, Sydenham. Married 4th September 1907, Lewisham Register Office.

Children - Harry Samuel Fox, born 13th February 1908, Lewisham; Ethel Rosina Fox, born 15th July 1909, Lewisham; Arthur George Fox, born 30th December 1910, Lewisham; Flora Emiley Fox, born 10th April 1912, Lewisham; Leonard John Fox, born 23rd December 1914, Lewisham; Eleanor Annie Fox, born 9th July 1917, Lewisham.

Home 7th June 1915 to 2nd May 1916; BEF, 3rd May 1916 to 24th September 1916; Home, 25th September 1916 to 5th January 1917; BEF, 6th January 1917 to 11th February 1917; Home, 12th February 1917 to 12th June 1918.

7th June 1915, enlisted & posted 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 19th September 1916, wounded, gun shot wound back, slight; 25th September 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 9th November 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 6th January 1917, posted 10th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment & BEF; 8th February 1917, wounded, gun shot wound, face & right forearm; 12th February 1917, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 1st January 1918 to 10th January 1918, furlough from 1st London General Hospital; 11th January 1918, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

12th June 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 13/9 a week to be reviewed in 35 weeks, conditional.

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