The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte J Lord

Private John LORD, 21296, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Enlisted 10th December 1915, Burnley, Lancashire, age 31, height 5ft ??; resided 6 Cleater Street, Burnley, Lancashire. Formerly cotton weaver.

Husband of Susan Lord, (nee Anforth, spinster), married 28th November 1911, Burnley, Lancashire.

Child - Harold Lord, born 19th September 1915, Burnley, Lancashire.

Home, 10th December 1915 to 12th September 1917; BEF, 13th September 1917 to 20th March 1918; Missing, Prisoner of War, 21st March 1918 to 6th January 1919; Home, 7th January 1919 to 27th March 1919.

10th December 1915, enlisted; 11th December 1915, transferred to Army Reserve; 2nd February 1917, mobilized; 3rd February 1917 posted 2/9th Middlesex Regiment, 6116; 13th September 1917, Infantry Base Depot, Etaples; 17th September 1917, transferred to 3rd / 4th Royal West Kent Regiment; 10th March 1918, posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 21st March 1918, Missing, Prisoner of War; 7th January 1919, repatriated at Hull; 7th January 1919, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment.

27th March 1919, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to sickness. Silver War Badge issued.

Pension, 13/9 a week from 28th March 1919, to be reviewed in 26 weeks; allowance for 1 child, 3/4 a week from 14th April 1919. Disability 50%, debility & fits, attributable & aggravated by.

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