The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte J H Elie

Private John Henry ELIE, 11379, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Enlisted 22nd November 1915, London, age 24, resided 124 Sydenham Road, Lewisham, SE / 25 Main Street, Howdon on Tyne. Formerly rivetter.

Home, 22nd November 1915 to 2nd may 1916; BEF, 3rd May 1916 to 18th September 1916; Home, 19th September 1916 to 22nd May 1917; BEF, 23rd May 1917 to 23rd February 1918; Home, 24th February 1918 to 18th January 1919.

22nd November 1915, enlisted and posted 11th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 17th September 1916, wounded; 19th September 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 8th February 1917, posted Eastern Command Depot, Shoreham; 11th April 1917, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 23rd May 1917, posted BEF; 8th June 1917, posted 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment;

41st Stationary Hospital, 13th December 1917, reported sick 20th November 1917 and transferred through 37 Field Ambulance, reflexes all normal, no tremor, pulse normal. Soldier states that on 20th November 1917, a dud shell dropped at his feet, sometime later another shell partly buried him. Unable to certify that soldier was subjected in the course of his duty to exceptional exposure as no evidence to the occurrence from Elie's Platoon Sergeant or any of the men, the officer commanding the Platoon does not remember seeing him during the action. This man has since rejoined his Unit (25th November 1917), and was wounded on 30th November 1917;

24th February 1918, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 27th April 1918, posted Eastern Command Depot, Shoreham; 11th June 1918, transferred to Class "?" Army Reserve; 18th January 1919, discharged Surplus to Military Requirements having suffered impairment.

18th January 1919, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to wounds. Silver War Badge issued

Pension, from 12th June 1918, 27/6 for 4 weeks, then 8/3 a week to be reviewed in 48 weeks, conditional.

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