The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte L C Fleet

Private Louis Charles FLEET, 206, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Born Eversholt, Bedfordshire, enlisted 27th August 1914, Maidstone, Kent, age 38, height 5ft 8 inches, weight 142lbs. Formerly warehouseman. Entitled to vote.

Previously served with Middlesex Volunteers, termination of engagement.

Husband of Beatrice Harriett Fleet, (nee Russell), 22 Bromley Gardens, Shortlands, Kent / 28 Barnes Cray Walk, Crayford, Kent. Married 7th August 1900, St Marks, Battersea.

Children - Winifred Beatrice Fleet, born 5th April 1902, Greenwich; Gladys Margaret Fleet, born 23rd July 1907, Canterbury, Kent; Albert William Fleet, born 19th January 1912, Bromley, Kent.

Home, 27th August 1914 to 31st October 1915; BEF, 1st November 1915 to 24th March 1916; Home, 25th March 1916 to 1st September 1916.

27th August 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 1st September 1914, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, Officers Servant (Capt); 25th March 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 3rd July 1916, posted Eastern Command Depot, Shoreham.

1st September 1916, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to sickness. Silver War Badge issued

Pension, 12/6 a week for 6 months, conditional.

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