The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte J Barton

Private John BARTON, 10563, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Born 27th May 1896, St Pauls Cray, Kent, enlisted 20th November 1914, Bromley, Kent, height 5ft 4 inches, weight 112lbs, resided 3 Mount Pleasant, Tunbridge Wells, Kent / 3 Home Cottages, Chatham, Kent. Formerly footman.

Son of William Thomas Barton, 9 Garden Cottages, St Pauls Cray, Kent.

Home, 20th November 1914 to 2nd May 1916; BEF, 3rd May 1916 to 27th June 1916; Home, 28th June 1916 to 11th September 1917; BEF, 12th September 1917 to 15th April 1918; Home, 16th April 1918 to 5th May 1919.

29th November 1914, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 29th December 1915, posted 10th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 3rd May 1916, embarked to BEF France; 24th June 1916, wounded, shell wound thigh & leg right; 28th June 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 28th June 1916 to 19th August 1916, 2nd S.G. Hospital Bristol, gun shot wound thigh; 28th August 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 14th April 1917, posted 2/5th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 12th September 1917, posted Infantry Base Depot; 16th September 1917, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 9th March 1918, wounded at Duty; 16th April 1918, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 16th April 1918 to 14th May 1918, Queen Marys Military Hospital, Whalley, Lancashire, carbuncle of neck; 14th May to 24th May 1918, furlough from Queen Marys Military Hospital, Whalley, Lancashire; 24th May 1918, Catterick; 30th October 1918, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

5th May 1919, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to wounds. Silver War Badge issued

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