The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte R C Watkinson

Private Robert Charles WATKINSON, 6645, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Enlisted 26th May 1915, Gravesend, Kent, age 23, height 5ft 5 inches, resided 17 Wycliffe Road, Perry Street, Northfleet, Kent / 19 Wycliffe Road, Perry Street, Northfleet, Kent. Formerly labourer.

Husband of Annie Watkinson, (nee Onyett, spinster), married 2nd December 1913, St Marks?, Northfleet, Kent.

Children - John Watkinson Watkinson, born 27th December 1908, 53 London Road, Northfleet, Kent; Margaret May Charlotte Watkinson, born 22nd May 1916, 53 London Road, Northfleet, Kent.

Home, 26th May 1915 to 9th December 1915; Indian Expeditionary Force, 10th December 1915 to 13th March1916; India, 14th March 1916 to 3rd July 1916; Home, 4th July 1916 to 8th September 1916.

26th May 1915, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 1st June 1915, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 15th September 1915, awarded 14 days Field Punishment No.2. by Commanding Officer, being in possession of another mans coat; 10th December 1915, posted Indian Expeditionary Force & 2nd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 10th December 1915, Keynsham Dockyard, embarked; 8th January 1916, Ashar, disembarked; 9th March 1916, wounded in action; 9th March 1916, admitted to Hospital; 13th March 1916, transferred to Basrah Hospital; 14th March 1916, transferred sick to India, Hospital Ship, Madras; 24th June 1916, Alexandria, 15 General Hospital, admitted gun shot wound head, ex Hospital Ship, Dougola?; 4th July 1916, Alexandria, to England, Hospital Ship, Glengorn? East; 4th July 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 1st September 1916, Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley; 8th September 1916, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

8th September 1916, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to wounds Silver War Badge issued.

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