The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte P C Hollamby

Private Percy Charles HOLLAMBY, 24903, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Enlisted 17th January 1916, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, age 27, height 5ft 2½ inches, resided 100 Silverdale Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent / 48B Silverdale Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Formerly driver.

Previously served with West Kent Militia

Husband of Emily Hollamby (nee Brown), 100 Silverdale Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Married 27th December 1910, Tunbridge Wells, Register Office.

Children - Catherine Susan Hollamby, born 22nd August 1911, Tonbridge, Kent; Dorothy May Hollamby, born 25th September 1913, Tonbridge, Kent; Percy Charles Hollamby, born 11th April 1915, Tonbridge, Kent; Gladys Evelyn Hollamby, born 18th January 1919, Tonbridge, Kent.

Home, 17th January 1916 to 16th March 1917; EEF, 17th March 1917 to 26th September 1918; Home, 27th September 1918 to 14th May 1919.

17th January 1916, enlisted; 18th January 1916, to Army Reserve; 5th January 1917, mobilized; 9th January 1917, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 17th March 1917, posted Egyptian Expeditionary Force, & 2/4th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 27th September 1918, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment.

14th May 1919, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to sickness. Silver War Badge issued

14th May 1919, Addington Park Military Hospital, Croydon, Surrey.

Disability, dysentry.

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