The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

L/Cpl C P Allen

Lance Corporal Charles Philip ALLEN, 203589, 4th Reserve Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Born Sydenham, Kent, enlisted 28th December 1914, Bromley, Kent, age 17, height 5ft 6 inches, 130lbs. Formerly printer / milk carrier?.

Previously 2/5th, 2/4th & 3/5th Battalions Royal West Kent Regiment, under Service No. 3045.

19th July 1915, Devonport, embarked for Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force, SS Northland; 9th August 1915, SS Northland, 1/2 Welsh Field Ambulance, admitted with diarrhoea, discharged 10th August 1915; 6th September 1915, Gallipoli, Unit Hospital, admitted; 11th September 1915, Giza, Red Cross Hospital, admitted dysentery; 4th October 1915, Cairo, Egypt, Military Hospital, admitted enteric; 8th December 1915, Alexandria, to England, Hospital Ship Essequibo; 29th May 1916 to 4th July 1916, Kitchener Hospital, Brighton, Sussex, enteric; 4th December 1917 to 13th December 1917, Brigade Hospital, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, neuralgia of scrotum; 7th February 1918, embarked; 13th February 1918. joined Battalion; 1st April 1918, Rouen, admitted 2 Con Dep, boils; 17th April 1918, Trouvelle, admitted 15 Con Dep; 22nd May 1918, Etaples, from 15 C.C.; 2nd June 1918, joined 24th Divisional Relief Company; 14th June 1918, joined 8th Battalion; 14th August 1918, admitted, ICT; 6th September 1918, admitted General Hospital, Stomatitis; 8th September 1918, Etaples, admitted 6 Con Dep; 13th September 1918, appointed paid Lance Corporal; 11th October 1918, joined Battalion; 12th May to 26th May 1919, leave to UK;

Date and place of original disability, 1915, Egypt. Returned from Egypt 1916. After enteric, weakness, loss of appetite, pains in abdomen, pale and anaemic. Attributable to Active Service.

Disablement less than 20%, 5/6 a week from 19th December 1919 for 32 weeks.

10th July 1919, discharged due to sickness. Silver War Badge issued.

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