The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte S Lambert

Private Sidney LAMBERT, 5074, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Enlisted 26th December 1914, Tonbridge, Kent, age 23, height 5ft 6½ inches, resided Crockham Farm, Crockham Hill, Edenbridge, Kent. Formerly gamekeeper.

Husband of Nellie Jane Lambert, (nee Bateman, spinster), Sunny Bank, Horns Hill, Westerham, Kent. Married 24th December 1914, Crockham Hill, Kent.

Home, 26th December 1914 to 11st May 1915; BEF, 12th May 1915 to 28th August 1916; Home, 29th August 1916 to 26th July 1917.

26th December 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 31st December 1914, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 12th May 1915, posted BEF & 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 22nd July 1916, wounded, gun shot wound, left foot; 29th August 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment.

26th July 1917, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to wounds. Silver War Badge issued.

Pension, 27/6 a week to be reviewed in 13 week, disability, gun shot wound, left leg amputated.

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