The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte W W Beecham

Private William Walter BEECHAM, 19311, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Enlisted 26th June 1916, age 26, height 5ft 8 inches, resided 41 Tennyson Road, Kilburn. Formerly coach motor trimmer.

Husband of Lena Beecham (nee Paull), 112, Fifth Avenue, Queens Park. Married 31st July 1910, St Martins Parish Church, Willesden.

Children - William Frederick Beecham, born 28th December 1910, Willesden; Leonard Harold Beecham, born 7th December 1912, Willesden; Stanley Walter Beecham, born 18th August 1915, Willesden.

Home, 26th June 1916 to 19th February 1917; Home, 20th February 1917 to 4th May 1917; BEF, 5th May 1917 to 27th October 1917; Home, 28th October 1917 to 18th March 1918.

26th June 1916, deemed to have enlisted; 20th February 1917, called up for Service, 5th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment; 5th May 1917, Infantry Base Depot, posted 18th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, G/24780; 22nd May 1917, transferred to Royal West Kent Regiment, 19311; 16th June 1917, wounded; 19th September 1917, shell shock; 29th September 1917, Abbevile Hospital; 24th October 1917, to England on Hospital Ship; 28th October 1917, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment.

18th March 1918, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to wounds. Silver War Badge issued

Pension of 27/6 a week to 17th September 1918, then 16/6 a week; children allowances 12/6 a week then 7/6. Disability 75%, shell shock.

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