The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte W Webb

Private William WEBB, 1866, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Born Bromley by Bow, London, Middlesex, enlisted 7th September 1914, Tonbridge, Kent, age 32, height 5ft 7 inches, resided 80 Blyth Road, Stratford, E15 / 14 Rock Road, Borough Green, Wrotham & Borough Green, Kent. Formerly farm labourer.

Previously served 6 years 3rd Battalion, Essex Regiment.

Husband of Rose Webb, (nee Shaw, spinster), 3 Plough Terrace, Basted, Borough Green, Kent. Married 15th December 1906, Register Office, West Ham.

Children - Thomas Webb, born 7th February 1917, West Ham, Forest Gate; Frank Webb, born 12th May 1909, Malling, Wrotham, Kent; Henrietta Webb, born 22nd September 1910, Malling, Wrotham Kent; Catherine Margaret Webb, born 12th October 1912, Malling, Wrotham, Kent; George Douglas Webb, born 3rd October 1914, Malling, Wrotham, Kent; William Charles Webb, born 17th October 1917, Borough Green, Kent.

Home, 7th September 1914 to 25th July 1915; BEF, 26th July 1915 to 18th August 1917; Home, 19th August 1917 to 9th February 1918

7th September 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 19th September 1914, posted 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 9th February 1918. War Hospital, Exeter.

9th February 1918, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to wounds Silver War Badge issued.

Pension, 27/6 a week for 4 weeks, then 16/6 a week to be reviewed in 48 weeks. Wounded left face, arm & thigh.

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