The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private A B Carnochan

Photograph by "Barrie Mitchell"

Private Alexander Bryce CARNOCHAN, 1000, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, died, 5th September 1918.

1884 September, born Birkenhead, Cheshire, son of Alexander Carnochan, 30 Rocky Bank Road, Tranmere, Birkenhead. Sister, Lena Halliday, 30 Rocky Bank Road, Tranmere, Birkenhead

1911 Census - 115 Dock Road, Tilbury, Essex - John Hicks, head, age 36, married, club doorkeeper, Tibury ????? Club, born Barking, Essex; Selina Margaret Hicks, wife, age 38, married 17 years, 3 children, all still alive, born Gravesend, Kent; John David Hicks, son, age 16, single, junior railway clerk, Railway Company, born Barking, Essex; Selina Valentine Hicks, daughter, age 14, school, born Beckton, Essex; Alfred Edward Hicks, son, age 8, born Tilbury, Essex; Alexander Bryce Carnochan, boarder, age 26, engine filtter marine, ships owner, born Birkenhead, Cheshire; Robert Burns, boarder, age 22, engine filtter marine, ships owner, born Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire.

Enlisted Gravesend, Kent, age 30 years & 145 days, height 5ft 5½ inches, weight 143lbs. Formerly engineer. 5 years apprenticeship to 1908 with John McDowell, Johnstone, Scotland.

Home 2nd September 1914 to 31st May 1915; BEF 1st June 1915 to to 1st January 1916; Home 2nd January 1916 to 26th July 1918.

2nd September 1914, enlisted; 5th September 1914, posted 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 19th December 1915, to Base Depot for testing by Munitions Commission; 31st December 1915, Etaples, transferred to England, for munition work; 2nd January 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 7th February 1916, employed at Messrs Armstrong Whitworth & Co, Walker on Tyne;

5th July 1918, Medical Board - present condition, obviously in a hopeless state, profound anemia, large quantity of albumen in urine, aortic & mitral murmurs, confined to bed. Disablement 100%. Permanently unfit for any kind of military duty;

26th July 1918, discharged not longer fit for Service, physically unfit.

Silver War Badge issued.

27th July 1918, pension of 27/6 a week awarded for 65 weeks to 28th October 1919, Final. Disablement 100%.

9th December 1918, Probate - Carnochan Alexander Bryce, of 30 Rocky Bank Road, Tranmere, Birkenhead engine fitter, died 15th September 1918, Administration (with will), Chester 9th December to Alexander Carnochan retired marine engineer. Effects £134 6s 3d.

Buried at Birkenhead (Flaybrick Hill) Cemetery, 6. N.C. 475., United Kingdom.

NOTE: Not shown in Regimental History or Soldiers Died in the Great War but shown on CWGC web site.

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