The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte P Eldridge

Private Percy ELDRIDGE, 18343, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Enlisted 29th February 1916, Hastings, Sussex, age 31, height 5ft 6 inches, resided 2 Forge Cottages, Ninfield Road, Sidley, Bexhill, Sussex. Formerly bricklayer.

Son of Anne Eldridge, 2 Forge Cottages, Ninfield Road, Sidley, Bexhill, Sussex.

Home, 29th February 1916 to 5th September 1916; BEF, 6th September 1916 to 16th October 1916; Home 17th October 1916 to 7th July 1917; Class "P" at Home, 8th July 1917 to 3rd December 1917.

29th February 1916, enlisted; 1st March 1916, to Army Reserve; 28th April 1916, mobilized; 29th April 1916, posted 12th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 1st September 1916, posted Training Reserve; 6th September 1916, posted BEF; 7th October 1916, wounded, left hand & arm; 17th October 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 7th July 1917, transferred to Class "P" Army Reserve.

7th July 1917, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to wounds. Silver War Badge issued

Pension, 8/3 a week for 26 weeks, to be reviewed, disability gun shot wound, left wrist.

3rd December 1917, final discharge.

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