The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte J Lowe

Private John LOWE, 6859, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Enlisted 27th May 1915, Holborn, London, age 39, height 5ft 9 inches, resided 50 Punderson Gardens, Bethnal Green.

Husband to Ada Ann Lowe, (nee Samson, spinster), married 1st April 1915, Bethnal Green.

Children - Thomas Charles Lowe, born 28th January 1900, Bethnal Green; Ada Ann Lowe, born 17th July 1901, Bethnal Green; Mary Ann Lowe, born 12th December 1903, Bethnal Green; Elizabeth Jane Lowe, born 15th September 1907?, Bethnal Green; Jenny Lowe, born 1st March 1911,Bethnal Green ; Margaret Ada Lowe, born 12th January 1914, Bethnal Green; James Henry Lowe, born 5th May 1915, Bethnal Green.

Home, 27th May 1915 to 2nd August 1915; BEF, 3rd August 1915 to 24th November 1915; Home, 25th November 1915 to 24th May 1916.

27th May 1915, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 19th June 1915, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 23rd June 1915, fraudulently enlisted in the 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment from the 9th Bedfordshire Regiment, trial dispensed with, to suffer same forfeiture & deductions from pay as if tried by DCM, service counts from 23rd June 1915; 3rd August 1915, posted BEF & 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 25th November 1915, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 12th January 1916, forfeits 14 days pay & awarded 14 days Field Punishment No.2.; 14th January 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

24th May 1916, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to sickness. Silver War Badge issued.

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