The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment
Sgt R Howse
Sergeant Roland HOWSE, 8858, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.
Enlisted 5th July 1915, Woolwich, Kent, age 24, height 5ft 6½ inches, resided 11 New Road, South Darenth, Kent. Formerly papermaker.
Husband of Elizabeth Ruth Howse, (nee Newnham, spinster), 11 New Road, South Darenth, Kent. Married 18th February 1911, Horton Kirby.
Children - Leonard John Richard Howse, born 28th October 1911, Dartford; Roland Alfred Howse, born 19th September 1915, South Darenth.
Home, 5th July 1915 to 2nd May 1916; BEF, 3rd May 1916 to 18th June 1917; 19th June 1917 to 3rd June 1918.
5th July 1915, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 5th July 1915, posted 10th July 1915, posted 10th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 24th August 1915, appointed unpaid Lance Corporal; 15th November 1915, appointed paid Lance Corporal; 3rd May 1916, posted BEF; 8th December 1916, appointed Acting Sergeant; 22nd December 1916, promoted Sergeant; 19th June 1917, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment.
3rd June 1918, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to sickness. Silver War Badge issued
Pension, 32/6 a week for 4 weeks, then 26/- a week to be reviewed in 26 weeks.
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