The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte J Baker

Private James BAKER, 1693, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Born Northfleet, Gravesend, Kent, son of Harry Baker,11 Hamilton Road, Northfleet, Gravesend, Kent.

Enlisted 5th September 1914, Gravesend, Kent, age 20, height 5ft 4 inches, weight 120lbs. Resided 11 Hamilton Road, Northfleet, Gravesend, Kent. Formerly labourer.

Home, 5th September 1914 to 25th July 1915; BEF, 26th July 1915 to 28th December 1915; Home, 29th December 1915 to 18th May 1916; BEF, 19th May 1916 to 16th September 1916; Home, 17th September 1916 to 10th April 1917; Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, 11th April 1917 to 22nd February 1919; On route to UK, 23rd February 1919 to 19th April 1919; Home, 20th April 1919 to 14th August 1919.

11th September 1914, posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 14th December 1915, Rouen, admitted to Hospital; 27th DEcember 1915, to England on Hospital Ship; 29th December 1915, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 29th December 1915, admitted VAD Hospital, Newton Abbott; 16th February 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 19th May 1916, posted 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 20th July 1916, wounded face; 10th August 1916, wounded; 11th September 1916, wounded, leg; 16th September 1916, to England on Hospital Ship; 17th September 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 17th September 1916 to 9th October 1916, Neath Hospital, Dublin, shrapnel wound, leg; 8th February 1917, joined Infantry Base, France; 20th February 1917, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 11th April 1917, embarked at Southampton; 11th April 1917, posted 2nd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 12th May 1917, arrived Basra; 15th July 1917, Advanced Base Camp, absent from ration fatigue, not shaving before parading for church, 5 days confined to Barracks; 19th July 1917, Advanced Base Camp, having a dirty rifle on guard mounting parade, 7 days confined to Barracks; 9th March 1918, posted 52nd Light Trench Mortar Battery; 1st April 1918, posted 34th Light Trench Mortar Battery; 21st May 1918, appointed Lance Corporal, 7th Battalion; 31st January 1919, posted 2nd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 20th April 1919, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 20th April 1919 to 21st May 1919, Kitchener Hospital Brighton, paratyphoid; 21st May 1919 to 14th August 1919, Addington Park War Hospital, Croydon, amoebic dysentery carrier

14th August 1919, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to sickness. Silver War Badge issued.

Pension of 5/6 a week, to be reviewed in 52 weeks, for 20% disability, amoebic dysentery carrier and gun shot wound left leg.

SEE ALSO Pte Frederick Ernest Baker.

This page was last updated on 10-Mar-2021.