The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private T W Brisley

Private Thomas Walter BRISLEY, 25110, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Enlisted 1st March 1916, St Paul's Churchyard, age 28, height 5ft 7 inches, resided 53 Victoria Road, Clapham, SW. Formerly printer compositor.

Son of Emma Brisley, 53 Victoria Road, Clapham, SW.

Home, 1st March 1916 to 20th March 1917; BEF, 21st March 1917 to 27th July 1917; Home, 28th July 1917 to 2nd May 1919.

1st March 1916, enlisted; 2nd March 1916, transferred to Army Reserve; 3rd January 1917, mobilized; 5th January 1917, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 21st March 1917, posted 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment & BEF; 28th July 1917, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 10th April 1919, Special Military Surgical Hospital, Tooting, SW17.

2nd May 1919, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to wounds. Silver War Badge issued

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