The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private A Hammond

Private Alfred HAMMOND, G/20229, 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, death assumed on or after, 26th October 1917.

Born Mile End, E.

16th December 1906, St Paul, Bow Common, Tower Hamlets - Alfred Hammond, age 22, bachelor, paint maker, 2 Kirks? Place, father, Thomas Hammond, plumber, married Sarah Tidman Ambrose , age 21, spinster, 3 Kirks? Place, father Henry Tidman, Ambrose, warehouseman.

Children - Alfred Henry Hammond, born 10th February 1908, Mike End, Old Town; Mary Gladys Hammond, born 4th December 1915?, Poplar

1911 Census - 18 Huddart Street, Mile End, London, E - Alfred Hammond, head, age 26, married, paint maker, oil & colour manufacturer, worker, born Stepney; Sarah Hammond, wife, age 25, married 4 years, 1 child, still alive, born Tower Hill; Alfred Hammond, son, age 3, born Mile End.

Enlisted Poplar, Middlesex, age 31, height 5ft 4 inches, weight 129lbs. Resided 18 or 80 Morant Street, Poplar. Formerly paint maker.

Home 22nd November 1915 to 10th October 1917; BEF 11th October 1917 to 26th October 1917.

22nd November 1915, enlisted; 23rd November 1915 to Army Reserve; 14th September 1916, mobilized; 8th June 1917, re-mobilized; 9th June 1917, posted 1st Reserve London Regiment, Service No.204770; 23rd July 1917, Blackdown, absconded from Camp from 11.00pm 22nd July 1917 till 10.00am 23rd July 1917, 5 days confined to Barracks, forfeits 1 days pay; 5th October 1917, Blackdown, overstaying draft leave from 10.30pm 5th October 1917 till 11.30pm 7th October 1917, 14 days confined to Barracks, fined 3 days pay, forfeits 3 days pay; 11th October 1917, posted BEF; 12th October 1917, Southampton, embarked; 13th October 1917, Havre, disembarked; 13th October 1917, Havre, No.7. Infantry Base Depot; 14th October 1917, transferred to Royal West Kent Regiment, posted 1st Battalion; 21st October 1917, joined Battalion, In the Field; 26th October 1917, posted wounded and missing.

7th July 1918, date when Separation Allowance of 28/- a week will cease.

8th July 1918, pension of 25/5 a week awarded to widow and two children.

Commemorated at Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 106 to 108, Belgium.

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