The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Cpl A C Adler

Corporal (Acting Sergeant) Alfred Charles ADLER, 3670, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Born 1890, Hoxton, London, Middlesex, son of Alfred & Mary Adler, 155 Boundary Road, Wood Green, London.

1911 Census - 86 Hornsey Park Road, Hornsey - Alfred William Adler, age 46, head, married Bailiff County Court, born Hoxton, London; Mary Emma Adler, age 44, wife married 23 years, two children, both still alive; born St Lukes, London; Alfred Charles Adler, age 21, son, single, solicitors clerk, born Hoxton, London; Mirian Ivy Adler, age 19, daughter, single, machinist, blouses, born Wood Green, Middlesex.

Enlisted Haringay, 10th September 1914, age 24, formerly Bailiff. Height 5ft 8 inches, weight 126lbs. Scar on middle finger right hand. Blue eyes, brown hair.

Home, 10th September 1914 to 4th August 1915; BEF,5th August 1915 to 8th December 1918; Home, 9th December 1918 to 24th April 1919.

Posted Depot, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment; 15th October 1914, posted 3rd Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment; 15th October 1914, appointed unpaid Lance Corporal; 14th December 1914, appointed Acting Corporal; 25th January 1915, appointed Acting Sergeant; 3rd August 1915, posted 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment; 11th September 1915, reverts to Corporal; 11th November 1915, wounded; 23rd July 1916, Missing; 30th July 1916, Prisoner of War; 27th November 1918, transferred from Germany to Switzerland; 9th December 1918, repatriated in London & posted Depot, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment; 13th February 1919, posted 3rd Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment; 24th April 1919, discharged to 155 Boundary Road, Wood Green, London.

24th April 1919, discharged, age 29, as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to wounds. 22nd May 1919, Silver War Badge issued

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