The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Pte A Haddon

Private Arthur HADDON, 10568, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment.

Enlisted 1st November 1915, Gravesend, Kent, age 19, height 5ft 6 inches, resided 24 Dock Row, Northfleet, Kent / 11 Bath Street, Gravesend, Kent. Formerly labourer.

Son of Jane Haddon, 24 Dock Row, Northfleet, Kent.

Home, 1st November 1915 to 14th April 1916; BEF, 15th April 1916 to 12th October 1916; Home, 13th October 1916 to 19th October 1917.

1st November 1915, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 7th November 1915, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 15th April 1916, posted BEF & 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 9th October 1916, wounded, gun shot wound, right arm; 13th October 1916, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 5th February 1917, posted Easter Command Depot, Shoreham, Sussex; 28th April 1917, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

19th October 1917, discharged as "no longer physically fit for War Service" due to sickness. Silver War Badge issued

Pension, 27/6 a week for 4 weeks, then 8/3 a week, to be reviewed in 52 weeks. Disability, gun shot wound, right arm & chest.

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